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Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  3chool 
For  the  Blind 


E/QHTY'FIRST  ANNUAL    REPORT 
OF    THE    TRUSTEES 


1912 


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Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  22,  1912. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir  :  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-first  annual  report 
of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation  thereof, 
together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual  accompany- 
ing documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEI^, 

Secretary. 


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OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION, 


1912-1913. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON.  President. 
N.   P.   HALLOWELL,  Vice-President. 
WILLIAM   ENDICOTT,  Jr.,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD   E.   ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 


FRANCIS   HENRY  APPLETON. 

WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES. 

THOMAS  B.   FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 

N.   P.   HALLOWELL. 

JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL. 


Mrs.  JAMES  J.  PUTNAM. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES. 

Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 
1913. 


January,  .  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

February,  .  Mrs.  James  J.  Putnam. 

March,      .  .  N.  P.  Hallowell. 

April,       .  .  Paul  R.  Fbothinqham. 

May,         .  .  James  A.  Lowell. 

June,        .  .  Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick. 


1913. 

July,        .  .  Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 

August,    .  .  Annette  P.  Rogers. 

September,  .  George  H.  Richards. 

October,  .  .  William  L.  Richardson. 

November,  .  Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 

December,  .  Albert  Thorndike. 


Committee  on  Education. 

Georoe  H.  Richards. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  James  J.  Putnam. 
Geobqe  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

N.  P.  Hallowell. 
Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

James  A.  Lowell. 
Albert  Thorndike. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD   E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS  AT  WATERTOWN. 


LITERARY 
Boys'  Section. 

WILLIAM  G.  PARK. 

Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA  A.  BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 

ORRIN  R.  FERRY. 

Miss  MARION  A.  BALLOU. 

ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 


DEPARTMENT. 

Girls'  Section. 
Miss  GRACE  B.  BICKNELL. 
Miss  EDITH   G.  DONNELLY. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE  M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  MARY  E.  SAWYER. 
Miss  ABBIE   G.  POTTLE. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  to  The  Deaf-Blind. 
Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 

Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  GRACE  E.  PORTER. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  PHYSICAL  TRAINING. 
TRUMAN  L.  BUTTERFIELD.  I    Miss  MARY  E.  SAWYER. 

I    Miss  LENNA  D.  SWINERTON. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN  M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN  F.  HARTWELL. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  MUSIC. 

EDWIN  L.  GARDINER. 

Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 

Miss  JANE  M.  BACON. 

Mi8s  BLANCHE  A.  BARDIN. 

Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD.  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  MANUAL  TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN  H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON.  Sloyi. 


Oirla'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES  M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH  ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN  E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH  HOXIE. 


DEPARTMENT  OP  TUNING  PIANOPOBTES. 

ELWYN  H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLERKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Mis3  LAURA  M.  SAWYER,  Librarian 
Miss  LOUISE  P.  HUNT,  Assistant. 


Miss  ANNA  GARDNER  FISH,  Clerk. 
Miss  MAI  L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 
Mrs.  SARAH  A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH. 

JULIAN  A.   MEAD,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician  for  the  Institution. 

HENRY  W.  BROUGHTON,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician  for  the  Kindergarten. 

FRANCIS  I.  PROCTOR,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HENRY  HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD  FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD  ARTHUR  LANE,  D.M.T).,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD  RUELBERG,  B.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA  A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  FRANCES  E.  CARLTON. 
Mrs.  MARY  P.  KILBOURN. 
Miss  CAROLYN  E.  DUNKLEE 


DOMESTIC  DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Steuxird. 
Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 

Oirls'  Section. 
Mrs.  M.  a.  KNOWLTON. 
Mrs.  CORA  L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  SOPHIA  C.  HOPKINS. 
Miss  FLORENCE  E.  STOWE. 


PRINTING  DEPARTMENT. 

DENNIS  A.  REARDON,  Manager.  j    Miss  AGNES  B.  GODDARD,  Printer. 

Mrs.  ELIZABETH  L.  BOWDEN.  I    Mrs.  ISABELLE  G.  DAVIS.  Printer. 

FRANK  C.  BRYAN,  Operator  of  Slereotypetnaker. 


WORKSHOP   FOR  ADULTS. 

EUGENE  C.   HOWARD,  Manager  Emeritus. 
FRANK  C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mbs.  B.  G.  LINCOLN,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS  AT  JAMAICA  PLAIN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Miss  Flora  L.  Fountain,  Assistant. 
Miss  EuPHEMiA  D.  Christie,  Kindergartner . 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Irma  a.  Perkins,  Assistant. 


KINDERGARTEN. 

Girls'  Section. 
Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner . 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 
Miss  Helen  M.  Hinolf,  Music  Teacher. 


Miss  Laura  A.  Brown,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinebton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 


PRIMARY   DEPARTMENT. 

Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Angie  L.  Tarbell,  Teacher. 


Miss  Eftie  C.  Saunders,  Teacher. 
Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  SiGRiD  Sjolander,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Babtlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  Carrie  M.  Wilson,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Grino,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING   COMMITTEE  TO  THE   KINDERGARTEN. 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Miss 


January. 


February. 


March. 


John  Lawrence, 
Louis  Bacon, 
Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Joseph  Warren, 
Wm.  A.  Lawrence, 

Wm.    R.    Ln'ERMORE, 

Ellen  Bullard, 
Joseph  G.  Bradley 
Annie  C.  Warren, 
Emily  Beebe, 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 

Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Honorary  Member. 

Mrs.  KiNGSMiLL  Marrs,  Honorary  Member. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  Honorary  Member. 


April. 
May. 


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Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 

Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 

Mrs.  Charles  B.  Perkins 
Miss  Eleanor  Parker 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Miss  Margaret  Morse,  . 
Mrs.  RoN.VLD  Lyman,  . 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  J.  H.  Cabot,  . 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent,  . 


June. 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.   T.,   Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Bostou. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mi-s.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Amory,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 
Anthony,  S.  Reed,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,   Mrs.   Francis  Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston, 
Appleton,   Dr.   William,   Boston. 
Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  Boston. 
Bacon,     Gaspar     G.,     Jamaica 

Plain. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 
Baldwin,    S.     E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Barrows,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  New  York. 
Bartlett,  Francis,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  F.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Beebe,  J.  Arthur,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 

York. 


Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Bostou. 
Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence. 
Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 
Bowditch,  Ingersoll,  Boston. 
Boyden,  ;Mi-s.  Charles,  Boston. 
Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 
Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 
Brooks,  Edward,  Hyde  Park. 
Brooks,  Rev.  G.  W.,  Dorchester. 
Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 
Brooks,  Mrs.  Peter  C,  Boston. 
Brooks,   Shepherd,  Boston. 
Browne,  A.  Parker,  Boston. 
Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 
Bullard,  Mrs.  William  S.,  Boston. 
Bullock,  George  A.,  Worcester. 
Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 
Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Boston. 
Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 
Callender,  Walter,   Providence. 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 
Gary,  Miss  E.  F.,  Cambridge. 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 
Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 
Chace,  Hon.  J.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chadwiek,  Mrs.  C.  C,  Boston. 
Chamberlin,  E.  D.,  Boston. 
Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 
Clark,  Miss  S.  W.,  Beverly. 
Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston. 
Coates,  James,  Providence,  R.  L 
Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 


Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 
Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 
Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  John  T.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 
Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 
Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 
Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 
Cruft,  Miss  Harriet  0.,  Boston. 
Cummings,  Mrs.  A.  L.,  Portland, 

Me. 
Cunniff,  Hon.  M.  M.,  Boston. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  Boston. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 
Curtis,    James   F.,    Washington, 
D.  C. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Mary  S.,  Brookline. 

Cushing,  Livingston,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Draper,  Eben  S.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Fairbanks,  Miss  C.  L.,  Boston. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 


Fay,  :Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover. 
Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 
Ferris,  Miss  Mary  E.,  Brookline. 
Fields,  Mrs.  James  T.,  Boston. 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  Boston. 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 
Foster,  Miss  C.  P.,  Cambridge. 
Foster,    Mrs.    E.    W.,   Hartford, 

Conn. 
Foster,  Francis  C,  Cambridge. 

Foster,   Mrs.   Francis   C,    Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  L 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,    Rev.    A.,    Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Goodwin,  Miss  A.  M.,  Cambridge. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 


Hall,  Mrs.  F.  Howe,  New  York. 

Hall,  Miss  Laura  E.,  Boston. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hallowell,  Col.  N.  P.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Hanscom,  Dr.  Sanford,  Somer- 
ville. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Aubumdale. 

Hearst,  IMrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  C.  P.,  Boston. 

Hersey,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Hodgkins,  Frank  E.,  Melrose. 

Hogg,  John,  Boston. 

Hollis,  Mi-s,  S.  J.,  Lynn. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howe,  Mrs.  Virginia  A.,  Boston. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 

James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Jones,  Mrs.  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 


Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kent,  Mrs.  Helena  M.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer- 
ville. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kamball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Wm.  Appleton,  Boston. 

Lee,  Mrs.  George  C,  Boston. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence. 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Lyman,  Arthur  T.,  Boston. 

Lyman,  John  P.,  Boston. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 


Mason,  Miss  E.  F.,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 
Mason,  I.  B.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Matthews,  Mrs.  A.  B.,  Boston. 
Meade,  Dr.  J.  A.,  Watertown. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 
Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 
Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 
Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Mixter,  Miss  M.  C,  Boston. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,    Mrs.    Eustis   P.,    Saco, 

Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,    Miss    M.    F.,    Jamaica 

Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 
Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 
Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 
Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Harold,  Hyde  Park. 
Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 
Perldns,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 
Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 
Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Quimby,  Mrs.  A.  K.,  Boston. 
Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 


Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 
Reardon,  Dennis  A.,  Watertown. 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 
Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 
Richai'ds,  George  H.,  Boston. 
Richards,  Mi-s.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 
Richardson,  John,  Boston. 
Richardson,    Miss    M.    G.,    New 

York. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 
Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Roberts,  Mi'S.  A.  W.,  Newton. 
Robinson,  Henry,  Reading. 
Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 
Rogers,    Miss    Flora     E.,     New 

York. 
Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 
Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Mattapan. 
Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,  Brookline. 
Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 
Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  Concord. 
Sehafe,  Capt.  Moi-ris,  Pittsfield. 
Sears,  David,  Boston. 
Sears,  Mrs.  Fred.  R.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 
Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 
Shattuek,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 
Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 
Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 
Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 
Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 
Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 
Spencer,  Henry  F.,  Boston. 
Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 


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Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  \Vm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Tapley,  Mrs.  Amos  P.,  Boston. 

Thayei',  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Ezra  R.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0, 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Turner,  Miss  A.  W.,  Randolph. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wna.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard.  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Vose,  Miss  Caroline  C,  Milton. 


"Ware,  Miss  M.  L.,  Boston. 
Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W.,  Boston. 
Watson,  Thomas  A,,  Weymouth. 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Weymouth. 
Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 
Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Wheelwi'ight,    Mrs.    Andrew    C, 

Boston. 
Wheelwright,  John  W,,  Boston. 
White,  C.  J.,  Cambridge. 
White,  Mrs.  Charles  T.,  Boston. 
White,  George  A.,  Boston. 
Whitney,  Miss  Anne,  Boston. 
Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 
Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 
Williams,    Mrs.     H.    C,    South 

Framingham. 
Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 
Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence. 
Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thos.  L.,  Boston. 
Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  9,  1912. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon,  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are 
hereby  ratified  and  couflrmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unan- 
imously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  IST.  P.  Hallowell. 

Treasurer.  —  "William  Endicott,  Jr. 

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Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  Walter  Cabot  Bay- 
lies, N.  P.  Hallowell,  James  A.  Lowell,  Mrs.  James  J. 
Putnam,  George  H.  Richards,  Richard  M.  Saltonstall,  and 
Albert  Thorndike. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation:  Messrs.  S.  R.  Anthony,  Francis  Henry 
Appleton,  Jr.,  Gaspar  G.  Bacon,  Arthur  A.  Ballantine, 
Ingersoll  Bowditch,  S.  Parker  Bremer,  F.  L.  Coolidge,  C. 
E.  Cotting,  Jr.,  James  F.  Curtis,  Livingston  Gushing, 
Charles  S.  Davis,  Henry  Endicott,  Jr.,  William  Rodman 
Fay,  Lyman  W.  Gale,  Sidney  Gleason,  Richard  B.  Gregg, 
Merrill  Griswold,  John  W.  Hallowell,  F.  L.  Higginson,  Jr., 
Walter  Hunnewell,  Jr.,  William  Appleton  Lavsrrence,  Charles 
E.  Loud,  J.  A.  Mead,  M.D.,  W.  Prentiss  Parker,  W.  Stan- 
ley Parker,  Harold  Peabody,  W.  Rodman  Peabody,  Neal 
Rantoul,  Frank  W.  Remick,  John  C.  Rice,  Henry  Lee  Shat- 
tuck,  William  B.  Steams,  William  Lyman  Underwood, 
Charles  Wiggins,  2d,  Roger  Wolcott,  and  Mrs.  Andrew  C. 
Wheelwright. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN", 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  9,  1912. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  The  leaven  of  the  past 
year  has  been  the  consciousness  of  our  approaching 
removal  to  Watertown.  The  previous  summer  saw  a 
minimum  of  repairs  to  the  old  building.  Everybody 
began  to  wind  up  affairs  preparatory  to  a  fresh  start. 
The  librarian  began  even  two  years  ago  to  assemble 
books  for  an  adequate  circulating  library  and  to  set 
aside  others  to  be  given  away,  while  quantities  too  old 
and  worn  to  be  of  any  use  were  sold  to  the  ragman. 

Great  willingness  and  earnestness  to  help  get  ready 
for  the  change  was  displayed  by  everyone.  Teachers 
and  officers  packed  articles  for  removal.  The  libra- 
rians remained  several  weeks  after  the  close  of  school 
to  oversee  the  packing  of  our  books  and  large  museum 
collection.  Some  300  boxes  and  cases  were  used  in  the 
general  packing,  besides  enough  specially  made  box 
trays  for  a  van  load  of  embossed  books,  to  be  emptied 
and  returned  until  all  were  carried  to  Watertown.  The 
arduous  task  of  carrying  out  the  material  transfer  fell 
upon  the  steward,  who  is  still  engaged  upon  it. 


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The  old  bookcases  of  the  library,  and  the  cases  of  the 
museum  and  classrooms,  largely  black  walnut,  and  cost- 
ing when  made  from  time  to  time,  years  ago,  some 
$9,000,  were  taken  down,  removed  and  set  in  place 
again  in  the  new  main  building.  During  the  summer 
all  old  bureaux  and  chairs  and  other  furniture  were 
assembled,  sorted  and  repaired. 

In  July  came  the  assurance  that  the  new  buildings 
of  the  upper  school  would  be  practically  ready  ahead  of 
time.  Our  engineer  and  fireman  went  into  service  July 
1.  The  Director  and  his  family  moved  August  15. 
Since  then  loads  have  come  out  every  day  and  are  still 
coming.  The  matrons,  each  with  her  helper,  returned 
between  September  3  and  9,  as  their  cottages  became 
ready.  Part  of  the  office  furniture  and  force  was 
moved  at  the  same  time.  At  the  present  time,  with 
many  men  still  about,  finishing  up  almost  every  kind 
of  work,  there  prevails  the  usual  confusion  inseparable 
from  getting  into  new  buildings.  However,  there  is 
everywhere  a  good  spirit  and  a  willingness  to  make  the 
best  of  everything,  and  certainly  an  appreciation  of  the 
splendid  future  opportunities  provided  here. 

A  magnificent  peal  of  English  bells  has  been  pre- 
sented to  the  institution  for  its  commanding  tower. 
They  are  given  in  memory  of  her  husband  by  Mrs.  An- 
drew C.  AVheelwright  of  Boston,  who  is  a  grandniece  of 
Thomas  Handasyd  Perkins,  after  whom  the  institution 
was  named.  The  bells  are  being  cast  in  London  and 
are  expected  to  arrive  this  coming  winter. 

The  lower  school  opened  at  the  regular  time  this  fall 
at  Jamaica  Plain.  The  upper  school  will  reopen  in 
Watertown  only  a  month  later  than  usual.    Embossed 


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plans  of  the  whole  lay-out  and  of  details  of  the  plant 
have  been  made,  so  that  the  pupils  can  have  them  for 
study. 

Farewells  to  Old  Perkins  began  on  last  Columbus 
Day,  when  the  girls  gave  the  entire  day  to  a  "  Farewell 
to  the  Green,"  soon  to  be  turned  over  to  the  City  to 
whom  it  had  been  sold.  Each  graduating  girl,  having 
a  commencement  part,  prepared  and  read  a  paper  on 
the  history  of  some  department  of  the  school.  In  June 
the  Alumnai  Association  held  its  26tli  annual  meeting 
in  the  girls '  school,  the  largest  ever  held  and  one  of  the 
best  and  richest.  The  exercises  consisted  largely  of 
reminiscences  and  appreciations.  At  Commencement 
time  the  Alumni  Association,  contrary  to  custom,  held 
its  annual  gathering  by  invitation  at  the  institution. 
It  also  had  a  very  large  meeting  of  those  who  wanted 
to  see  the  old  place  for  a  last  time. 

From  many  people  living  in  South  Boston  we  have 
heard  genuine  regrets  expressed  at  our  leaving.  Sev- 
eral took  pains  to  tell  the  Director  what  the  moral  in- 
fluence of  the  institution  had  been  locally ;  how  that  see- 
ing such  brave,  bright,  blind  people  walking  by  from 
day  to  day  had  a  softening  and  uplifting  effect. 

When  it  was  known  that  the  institution  was  to  move 
there  was  little  difficulty  in  selling  most  of  its  income- 
bearing  property  at  South  Boston,  while  about  one- 
sixth  of  the  rest,  including  the  girls'  green  mentioned 
above,  was  sold  to  the  City  for  a  Municipal  Building. 
The  great  house,  however,  overlooking  City  Point  and 
the  sea,  together  with  the  girls'  cottages  and  some  little 
property  besides,  we  still  own.  This  big  Main  Build- 
ing, where  the  school  began  as  an  established  fact. 


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though  outgrown  in  many  ways,  has  attached  to  it 
sentiment,  history  and  prestige  that  have  made  it  dear 
and  revered  to  all  those  who  have  dwelt  within  its 
walls.  Its  influence  and  teaching  have  made  for  many 
the  difference  between  unhappy  uselessness  and  cheer- 
ful usefulness. 

The  departments  of  the  school  have  gone  on  about 
as  usual.  The  library  sent  "  traveling  libraries  "  to 
Lynn  and  Providence.  In  June  it  invited  as  large  sum- 
mer reading  as  possible,  disposing  by  July  of  1,299 
volumes  to  be  returned  to  the  new  address  after  Sept. 
15.  Increasing  calls  on  the  library  during  the  year 
demanded  extra  help.  One  of  our  part-seeing  pupils 
was  first  employed  for  a  half  day  and  finally  for  the 
whole  day  to  assist. 

The  music  department  never  worked  harder  or  ac- 
complished finer  results.  The  school  year  culminated 
in  the  annual  concert,  which  included  Part  One  of  Men- 
delssohn's Elijah.  At  the  close  of  the  year  diplomas 
for  proficiency  in  teaching  the  pianoforte  were  given  to 
two  pupils.  More  than  the  usual  amount  of  new  music 
in  Braille  was  turned  out;  and  many  old  publications 
were  revised  and  reprinted. 

Three  of  our  recent  graduates  have  this  past  summer 
secured  positions  in  other  schools  for  the  blind :  —  A 
young  man,  as  instructor  in  pianoforte  tuning  at  Over- 
lea,  Md. ;  another,  as  music  teacher  at  Hartford,  Conn. ; 
and  a  young  woman,  as  teacher  of  the  blind  pupils  of 
the  new  Austine  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  the  Blind 
at  Brattleborough,  Vt.  This  young  woman  was  grad- 
uated in  June  from  the  State  Normal  School  at  North 
Adams,  Mass.    Another  graduate,  a  young  man  who  is 


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also  a  graduate  of  the  New  England  Conservatory  of 
Music,  has  secured  a  position  as  leader  of  band  and 
orchestra  in  a  state  institution  in  Missouri. 

After  the  death  of  Mr.  Hart  in  March,  1911,  we  were 
able  to  induce  Mr.  Elwyn  H.  Fowler  of  Worcester,  a 
graduate  of  this  school,  to  take  charge  of  our  tuning 
department.  He  brought  with  him  the  work  which  he 
had  had  of  tuning  the  public  school  pianos  of  that  city. 
The  contracts  for  tuning  the  pianos  of  Boston  and 
Medford  have  again  been  renewed,  but  this  year  at  an 
advanced  rate,  so  that  now  Perkins  graduates,  under 
the  direction  and  control  of  the  institution,  tune  the 
school  pianos  of  these  three  cities. 

In  previous  years  it  has  been  difficult  to  make  stereo- 
type plates  for  printing  embossed  books  as  rapidly  as 
the  press  room  desired  them.  This  year,  with  an  extra 
hand  using  a  third  stereotypemaker,  more  plates  were 
turned  out  than  could  be  printed  from,  so  that  we  begin 
the  season  with  a  considerable  stock  on  hand,  ready  for 
press.  The  choice  of  the  titles  for  books  has  varied  as 
heretofore,  rather  less  attention  having  been  given, 
however,  to  fiction  and  more  to  solid  reading.  The 
achievement  of  the  year  has  been  the  publication  of 
' '  Great  Expectations  ' '  serially,  so  that  our  pupils  and 
others  could  read  it  as  its  original  readers  did.  This 
edition  was  published  through  the  generosity  of  Mr. 
Wallace  Pierce,  a  long-time  friend  of  the  school,  alike 
in  honor  of  Dickens's  centenary  and  in  memory  of  Mr. 
Anagnos,  his  close  friend. 

Scenes  were  given  from  *'  Twelfth  Night,"  which 
Miss  Langworthy's  boys  acted  several  times  extremely 


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well.  Even  this  play  was  utilized  to  gather  a  few  dol- 
lars towards  furnishing  the  new  cottages. 

In  the  gymnasium  on  March  2,  1912,  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution boys  defeated  a  team  from  the  Framingham 
High  School  in  an  indoor  track  meet,  the  score  being 
531/2  points  to  91/2  points.  The  Framingham  boys  were 
point  winners  in  but  four  events.  This  was  the  first 
time  that  the  Perkins  Institution  boys  ever  contested 
with  a  high  school  in  track  athletics,  but  it  marks  a 
growing  tendency  among  our  pupils  to  abandon  con- 
tests with  other  schools  for  the  blind  in  favor  of  those 
with  schools  for  the  seeing,  and  in  these  meets  they 
neither  ask  nor  expect  concessions  of  any  kind. 

Several  of  the  boys  in  the  manual  training  shop  were 
employed  making  clothes-poles  for  their  Watertown 
rooms,  while  many  others  were  unusually  ambitious  in 
earning  for  themselves  through  caning  and  rush  bot- 
toming such  chairs  as  our  workshop  for  men  could  not 
undertake  to  finish  on  time.  Some  of  our  part-seeing 
boys  were  employed  with  pleasure  and  profit  to  them- 
selves in  making  men  for  checkerboards,  for  which  we 
have  had  a  great  sale,  and  in  driving  pins  into  quan- 
tities of  interlocking  dominoes.  Wlien  our  Mr.  Mabey, 
who  devised  these  games,  first  made  an  outlay  of  $55 
for  press  and  die  to  make  the  checkerboard,  it  seemed 
as  though  it  would  be  a  long  time  before  the  institution 
would  get  its  money  back,  but  it  long  ago  did  so ;  the 
same  thing  has  happened  in  the  case  of  the  die  for  the 
dominoes.  It  has  been  a  satisfaction  to  make  these 
popular  games  as  well  as  to  demonstrate  to  our  pupils 
who  shared  in  their  manufacture  the  business  proposi- 
tion of  a  present  outlay  for  future  profit. 


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Some  of  the  energy  of  the  girls'  manual  training 
department  was  put  into  making  up  household  linens 
for  Watertown.  The  teaching  of  housework  to  the 
girls  progresses  most  favorably,  so  that  there  has 
arisen  a  demand  to  be  assigned  to  the  new  Domestic 
Science  Cottage  which  will  accommodate  only  five  girls 
and  their  instructor. 

In  June  four  of  the  girls '  teachers,  who  had  given  us 
years  of  faithful,  devoted  service,  resigned.  Miss 
Frances  S.  Marrett  has  been  with  the  school  26  years, 
Miss  Sarah  M.  Lilley,  25,  Miss  Anna  S.  Hanngren,  12, 
and  Miss  Helen  L.  Smith,  8.  The  methods  of  these  un- 
commonly excellent  instructors  have  been  studied  by 
the  Principal  and,  so  far  as  possible,  by  the  teachers 
who  are  to  take  their  places.  The  work  for  the  blind 
seems  to  draw  to  it  those  who  have  a  desire  to  serve 
as  well  as  to  teach.  Much  of  our  success  has  been  due 
to  this  enthusiasm  for  social  service. 

Differently  from  at  South  Boston,  where  all  have  felt 
the  desirability  of  re-construction,  at  Jamaica  Plain 
the  officers,  conscious  of  their  beautiful  environment, 
have  not  been  so  eager  for  removal  to  Watertown. 
They  are  to  be  commended  for  this  attachment  to  the 
place  they  have  worked  in  so  long  and  so  well.  Re- 
moval is  better  even  for  them,  however,  because  of  the 
fire-proof  construction  of  the  new  buildings  and  be- 
cause of  their  much  greater  convenience  to  the  steward 
and  the  director  of  music,  while  the  Director  of  the 
whole  institution  can  give  more  adequate  personal 
supervision  to  lower  school  affairs  than  has  been 
possible  heretofore.     At  the  kindergarten  there  has 


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been  the  usual  routine  of  joyous  play  and  genuine 
instruction.  The  devotion  that  matrons  and  teachers 
give  there  to  their  little  charges  will  never  be  wholly 
appreciated  by  them.  Some  500  children  have  attended 
this  department  since  its  opening  twenty-five  years  ago 
last  April. 

Our  Jamaica  Plain  teachers  have  interested  them- 
selves to  attend  lectures  on  pedagogy,  especially  those 
on  the  Montessori  system.  In  the  spring  Prof.  Arthur 
0.  Norton  of  Harvard  spent  a  morning  at  the  kinder- 
garten explaining  this  new  system  and  suggesting  what 
he  thought  might  be  its  application  to  our  work.  We 
had  bought  a  set  of  the  Montessori  didactic  material 
which  he  used  to  illustrate  his  talk. 

The  large  number  of  little  children  on  trial  in  the 
kindergarten  caused  us  to  employ  a  special  teacher  to 
work  with  them  individually  under  one  of  our  more 
trained  instructors.  The  Worker  for  Children,  em- 
ployed by  the  Massachusetts  Commission  for  the  Blind, 
has  found  in  the  state  many  children  who  were  with- 
out schooling  because  their  towns  or  cities  have  re- 
jected them  as  having  too  little  sight  to  get  on  in  the 
public  schools.  As  our  school  was  not  entirely  filled 
with  legitimate  subjects  we  consented  at  the  request  of 
the  Commission  to  receive  a  number  of  these  on  trial. 
There  is  beginning  a  movement  to  make  special  pro- 
vision for  these  ' '  myopes  ' '  in  conjunction  with  public 
schools  —  perhaps  most  developed  in  London.  Classes 
are  formed  for  them  in  which  the  ordinary  appeal  to 
the  eye  is  lessened  and  the  appeal  to  touch  and  hearing 
increased.     Our  Director  is  interested  in  furthering 


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tlieir  cause  and  has  urged  the  Commissioii,  of  which  he 
is  a  member,  to  induce  the  Boston  school  board  to  form 
special  classes  for  them,  as  has  been  done  in  London. 

These  children,  who  can  generally  see  enough  to  read 
with  their  eyes  and  yet  ought  not  to  do  so,  do  not  belong 
in  a  school  for  the  blind  because  they  are  impatient  of 
blind  methods  and  rarely  learn  to  rely  upon  finger 
reading.  And  indeed  most  of  them  ought  not  to  be 
expected  to  do  so.  If  the  Director  were  not  so  en- 
grossed in  re-adjustment  and  reconstruction,  he  would 
like  to  start  the  teaching  of  such  borderline  cases  in 
classes  by  themselves  through  special  means  and  meth- 
ods and  with  special  teachers  employed  by  the  institu- 
tion. Classifying  them  with  blind  children  here  has 
been  unfortunate  alike  for  most  of  them  and  for  our 
proper  pupils.  It  has  been  a  mistaken  kindness  to  all 
concerned.  Meanwhile,  owing  to  the  fact  that  such 
boys  and  girls  cannot  keep  the  pace  in  the  common 
schools,  where  everything  is  adapted  to  keen  eyesight, 
numbers  of  these  poor  children  are  drifting  along  with- 
out training,  and  the  whole  community  will  suffer  with 
them. 

The  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School 
for  the  Blind  did  not  rebuild  to  change  its  character, 
did  not  build  larger,  but  better.  Its  enlargement  is 
only  qualitative  and  for  the  benefit  of  educable  blind 
or  nearly  blind  children,  not  for  others.  But  it  is  still 
willing  to  take  doubtful  or  "  borderline  "  cases  on 
trial  though  it  cannot  undertake  to  keep  the  unfit,  the 
cost  of  educating  an  individual  here  being  in  every  way 
too  great  to  bestow  it  upon  the  really  unpromising. 

It  has  become  evident  to  her  special  teacher  and  to 


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others  that  our  deaf -blind  pupil,  Nellie  Winitzky,  would 
better  not  return  another  year.  She  had  been  here 
seven  years  and  had  progressed  but,  what  with  her 
eagerness  to  do  and  to  learn  in  the  face  of  deafness 
and  partial  sight  and  lack  of  muscular  control  when 
walking,  her  physical  strength  was  not  equal  to  the  de- 
mands made  upon  it.  She  had  often  to  be  made  to  rest 
sometimes  for  days  in  bed ;  so  after  consulting  a  special 
physician  she  has  been  discharged  and  will  remain  at 
home  where  she  can  be  made  happy  caring  for  the 
younger  members  of  her  family,  to  whom  she  is  de- 
voted. The  special  outlay  made  in  her  case  has  been 
justified  in  the  general  education  she  has  so  far  ac- 
quired, enabling  her  to  live  her  life  more  happily  and 
contentedly  because  busily.  But  that  she  should  be- 
come self-supporting  is  out  of  the  question. 

Louis  Yott,  our  other  special  pupil,  is  a  sturdy  little 
fellow  and  normal  except  that  he  has  a  persistent  skin 
disease,  little  sight  and  no  hearing.  He  has  gone  on 
improving  in  speech  and  in  the  capacity  for  work  and 
play.  This  year  he  will  be  in  the  upper  school  where 
we  can  better  spare  room  for  him  and  his  teacher  than 
in  the  lower. 

Tom  Stringer  has  worked  on  not  quite  patiently  in 
our  workshop  for  adults  to  which  he  has  been  going 
daily  from  the  institution.  At  the  time  of  our  last  re- 
port he  gave  promise  of  remaining  contented  there. 
His  friends  have  stood  by  him,  comforted  and  worked 
with  him;  nevertheless  he  is  growing  less  and  less 
patient  of  any  routine.  He  is  just  now  looking  forward 
to  the  move  to  Watertown,  which  place  with  its  many 
rooms  and  new  opportunities  ought  to  continue  inter- 


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esting  for  some  period;  but  we  feel  that  even  these  will 
wear  out  in  time.  The  poor  fellow  is  really  far  more 
shut  in  than  most  of  the  others  afflicted  in  the  same 
way  with  whom  we  have  had  to  do.  He  cares  nothing 
for  reading  or  games  of  any  kind  but  lives  in  a  fixed 
routine  of  habit  and,  while  a  thoroughly  good  and  up- 
right young  man,  no  longer  bears  out  the  promise  of 
his  earlier  years.  However,  his  comfort  is  our  charge 
and  it  will  be  our  duty  and  pleasure  to  continue  to  do 
everything  possible  to  make  life  worth  living  for  him. 

A  good  friend  of  the  institution  and  a  father  of  all 
the  deaf-blind  died  this  summer,  Mr.  William  Wade  of 
Oakmont,  Pa.  His  active  interest  in  people  deprived 
of  one  or  more  special  senses  began  with  his  knowing 
Helen  Keller.  He  always  stood  ready  to  furnish  her 
with  such  embossed  books  as  she  could  not  get  in  this 
country,  especially  at  the  time  of  her  Eadcliffe  study. 
Later  he  came  to  know  personally  most  of  the  deaf- 
blind  in  the  country,  and  he  even  corresponded  with 
several  in  other  lands;  to  all  of  whom  he  was  fairy 
godfather.  In  1901  he  published  a  monograph  on  the 
Deaf-Blind,  and  in  1902  a  continuation,  which  he  called 
The  Blind-Deaf,  both  of  which  were  unique  contribu- 
tions to  literature  on  the  blind.  He  was  especially  de- 
voted to  children ;  and  was  warm-hearted  and  true. 

The  workshop  for  adults  will  remain  at  South  Boston 
for  the  present.  Even  if  all  our  property  there  were 
sold  it  would  be  better  for  the  shop  to  remain  in  the 
city  whence  it  draws  most  of  its  patronage.  It  happens 
that  the  past  year  has  been  the  most  prosperous  in  its 
history ;  for,  besides  being  able  to  give  continued  occu- 
pation and  opportunity  for  complete  livelihood  to  its 


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usual  number  of  blind  people,  the  end  of  the  year  shows 
an  unprecedented  balance  of  receipts  over  expendi- 
tures. The  total  business  of  the  year  exceeded  $31,000. 
It  is  a  genuine  satisfaction  to  us  to  have  conditions 
thus,  since,  though  strictly  a  charity,  our  shop  is  run 
also  on  a  business  basis. 

Again  it  must  be  reported  that  no  large  bequests 
have  been  made  to  the  institution.  Considering  the 
extraordinary  expenditures  necessitated  by  the  new 
buildings,  the  institution  is  by  that  much  the  poorer  in 
funds  and  will  welcome  in  the  future  the  financial  aid 
it  has  enjoyed  in  the  past.  The  year's  collection  from 
the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society  was  $5,328.38. 

The  need  of  the  Massachusetts  adult  blind  for  home 
teaching  continues  as  great  as  ever,  for  the  new  cases 
brought  to  our  attention  by  the  Commission  for  the 
Blind  equals  the  number  the  teachers  can  give  up  from 
time  to  time  as  having  profited  all  they  can  by  instruc- 
tion. The  pupils  visited  this  year  were  107  and  the 
new  cases  67. 

The  number  of  blind  persons  connected  with  the  Per- 
kins Institution  on  the  first  of  October,  1912,  was  299, 
but  this  enrolment  will  be  much  increased  upon  the 
opening  of  the  upper  school  about  the  middle  of  the 
month.  This  number  includes  68  boys  and  73  girls  on 
the  lists  of  the  upper  school,  68  boys  and  58  girls  in 
the  lower  school  in  Jamaica  Plain,  12  teachers  and 
officers,  and  20  adult  workers  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  39  admitted  and  52  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

Acknowledgment  should  be  made  here  of  the  kindly 
and  efficient  service  which  the  institution  has  received 


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for  nearly  twelve  years  from  its  attending  physician, 
Dr.  Elisha  S.  Boland  of  South  Boston.  He  naturally 
could  not  continue  to  serve  us  ten  miles  away  at  Water- 
town. 

Except  for  18  cases  of  German  measles,  7  of  whoop- 
ing cough,  and  1  of  appendicitis,  the  health  of  our 
pupils  has  been  good ;  but  the  institution  has  suffered  a 
severe  loss  in  the  death  of  two  of  its  matrons,  both  of 
them  faithful,  loyal  members  of  our  households.  Miss 
Mary  J.  Jones  of  the  boys'  primary  building  at  Ja- 
maica Plain,  who  had  been  at  the  head  of  that  house 
since  its  opening  in  1897,  and  Miss  Clara  E.  Stevens, 
housemother  in  May  Cottage  in  the  girls'  department 
at  South  Boston  since  1903. 

On  the  12th  of  December,  1911,  occurred  the  death  of 
Miss  Elizabeth  Chick,  who  had  been  employed  in  the 
Workshop  for  Adults  for  forty  years. 

One  of  the  little  pupils  in  the  girls'  kindergarten  at 
Jamaica  Plain,  Alice  M.  Hurst,  died  at  her  home,  Sep- 
tember 10,  1912,  of  tumor  on  the  brain. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Dr.  Algernon  Coolidge;  Mrs.  Clemence  Haggerty, 
wife  of  James  Mason  Crafts;  Thomas  Doliber;  Miss 
Mary  Bradford  Foote;  John  Henry  Holmes;  Amory 
A.  Lawrence. 

Mr.  Amory  A.  Lawrence  of  Boston,  whose  death 
occurred  on  the  sixth  of  July,  1912,  had  served  this 
institution  for  fifteen  years  as  vice-president  and  had 
been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  during  the 
last  year  of  his  life.     He  was  a  public-spirited  and 


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useful  citizen,  always  interested  in  civic  improvements 
and  active  in  the  advancement  of  good  causes  every- 
where. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
N.  P.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
MARIAN  CABOT  PUTNAM, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL, 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Trustees. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  DIRECTOR. 


To  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemetst  :  —  The  very  important 
change  about  to  take  place  in  the  life  of  the  institution 
marks  such  an  era  in  its  history  that  some  recapitula- 
tion both  of  the  reasons  for  it  and  of  the  character  of  it 
might  be  expected  from  me  at  this  time.  I  shall  there- 
fore make  this  the  burden  of  the  present  brief  report. 

Thfe  institution  site  at  South  Boston  has  long  ceased 
to  be  the  ideal  one  it  once  was  for  such  a  school.  It  has 
become  shut  in  by  streets  and  structures.  Its  grounds 
have  become  cramped  and  uninviting.  Both  they  and 
the  lofty  main  building,  though  in  most  respects  large 
enough,  lent  themselves  but  ill  to  what  may  be  called 
the  inspirational  prevention  of  troubles.  It  is  difficult 
for  most  boys  to  give  proper  respect  to  a  house  towards 
whose  daily  upkeep  they  make  no  personal  contribu- 
tion. The  proportion  of  servants  had  to  be  three  times 
as  great  in  the  care  of  the  boys '  great  house  as  in  that 
of  the  girls'  cottages,  and  there  were  usually  more  girls 
than  boys.  But  even  these  cottages,  though  built  to 
facilitate  housework  by  the  girls,  were  in  some  respects 
inadequate  and  uninviting.  Both  they  and  the  main 
building,  housing  together  245  people,  day  and  night, 
were  a  fire  hazard  not  comfortable  to  contemplate. 
Then  this  South  Boston  site,  though  really  near  the 
main  city,  was  out  of  the  path  of  many  desirable  visi- 
tors.   It  was  six  miles  distant  from  the  kindergarten  at 


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Jamaica  Plain,  a  school  which  now  comprises  136  pu- 
pils and  which  has  had  to  be  administered  at  long 
distance  for  the  twenty-five  years  of  its  existence.  The 
kindergarten  bnildings,  while  attractive  and  adequate, 
also  represented  a  fire  hazard.  Considering  all  these 
conditions  it  is  indeed  time  that  the  Perkins  Institution 
undertook  the  radical  change  now  making;  for  not  only 
are  its  two  chief  divisions,  the  kindergarten  or  lower 
school  and  the  main  or  upper  school,  coming  together 
on  the  same  lot  of  land,  but  they  are  going  to  be  housed 
in  modern,  fireproof  buildings,  carefully  planned  to 
obviate  all  possible  of  the  drawbacks  indicated  above, 
and  the  general  environment  is  to  be  such  that  its  ab- 
sorption will  not  only  be  desirable  but  a  help  alike  to 
teachers  and  pupils  and  visitors. 

It  had  scarcely  been  feasible  for  the  institution  to  re- 
build so  adequately  as  it  has  done  had  it  not  been 
possible  to  have  the  Kindergarten  for  the  Blind  share 
both  the  expense  of  first  cost  and  of  maintenance  of 
such  of  the  new  plant  as  it  should  justly  assume.  Both 
divisions  of  the  institution  will  benefit  in  marked  de- 
gree. The  kindergarten  is  not  in  any  sense  merged 
with  the  parent  institution  but  still  keeps  by  itself  in  all 
ways  that  are  desirable. 

The  buildings  are  soon  to  be  transferred  from  con- 
tractor to  owners  and  will  be  occupied  at  the  earliest 
possible  moment.  Indeed,  we  have  practically  com- 
pleted the  material  transfer  of  the  South  Boston  school. 

The  principles  underlying  the  grouping  and  division 
of  our  new  buildings  and  their  interior  arrangements 
were  determined  after  protracted  study  by  architect, 
building  committee  and  Director. 


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Let  me  present  here  some  of  the  theory  that  has 
affected  onr  plan  of  reconstruction. 

It  is  wise  alike  for  economic  and  eugenic  reasons  to 
educate  vitally  handicapped  boys  and  girls  strictly 
apart  at  all  times  and  places.  The  pupils  of  the  lower 
school  are  pre-adolescent ;  of  the  upper  school,  adoles- 
cent. Also  to  keep  the  two  groups  apart  is  wise  both 
for  this  reason  and  for  the  reason  that  the  division 
breaks  an  unwieldly  number  into  groups  which  may  be 
handled.  A  further  cleavage  into  cottages  is  best  be- 
cause it  effects  the  maximum  of  personal  contact  of  the 
children  and  youth  with  selected  adults.  Again,  mak- 
ing each  cottage  of  boys  or  of  girls  a  family  is  espe- 
cially desirable  because  wholesome.  The  doing  of  daily 
chores  by  all  pupils  can  be  made  to  have  a  profound 
educational  effect ;  being  contributory  work  it  is  moral ; 
besides,  it  ;s  practical  training  for  life.  Some  one  has 
said  that  school  is  not  merely  preparation  for  life,  it  is 
life;  that  it  should  teach  boys  and  girls,  not  subjects; 
and  that  one  of  the  best  means  is  to  keep  them  busy 
and  interested  and  full  of  responsibility.  Officers  and 
teachers  should  also  have  daily  ^'  duties,"  such  as  car- 
ing for  their  rooms,  the  object  being  chiefly  example  set 
to  the  pupils  that  housework  is  honorable  and  not  un- 
dignified and  its  avoidance  not  one  of  the  results  of 
education.  But  it  is  good  for  them  also,  especially  as 
it  promotes  the  spirit  of  family  interdependence. 

Such  division  into  cooperative  family  living  is  only 
practically  effective  where  the  children  are  old  enough 
to  be  really  helpful.  Where  they  are  not  so,  as  in  the 
lower  school,  the  divisions  may  be  by  age  as  well  as  sex. 
Where  they  are  so,  as  in  the  upper,  the  element  of  age 


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may  be  disregarded,  the  divisions  being  made  to  pro- 
mote equal  efficiency  among  the  families.  This  has 
been  the  case  in  our  girls '  cottages  since  1870. 

The  principle  which  the  Perkins  Institution  is  now 
able  to  emphasize  throughout  is  that  the  test  of  edu- 
cation lies  less  in  what  one  knows  than  in  how  one  can 
adjust  oneself  to  society;  that,  while  it  is  easy  to  in- 
struct the  young  blind,  it  is  difficult  to  train  them  so  as 
to  hold  their  own  in  the  world.  A  reason  for  this  diffi- 
culty lies  in  the  tendency  of  the  seeing  to  underrate  the 
capabilities  of  the  blind ;  another,  in  the  natural  prone- 
ness  of  the  blind  to  magnify  this  "  prejudice  of  the 
seeing  "  and  to  minimize  the  influence  of  their  own 
exertions  in  overcoming  it.  The  Perkins  Institution 
must  be  a  living,  working  demonstration  of  the  power 
of  the  young  blind  not  only  to  do  this  but  also  to  appear 
and  act  like  other  people,  —  really  a  continuous  exhi- 
bition. To  this  end  the  best  interdependent  family 
living  under  reasonably  ideal  conditions  is  made  funda- 
mental. 

Wlien  some  fourteen  years  ago  I  helped  shape  the 
plan  of  the  new  buildings  of  the  Pennsylvania  Institu- 
tion for  the  Blind,  I  laid  my  main  emphasis  on  cen- 
tralized control  coupled  with  a  beautiful  environment. 
Under  stress  of  similar  circumstances  I  should  unhesi- 
tatingly recommend  repeating  the  same  plan;  for  it 
has  worked  out  magnificently.  It  truly  represents  the 
best  type  of  congregate-segregate  institution  for  the 
blind  that  there  is,  and  I  have  personally  visited  forty 
of  these  residential  schools  here  and  in  Europe.  But 
my  years  of  conduct  of  it,  together  with  the  years  here, 
have  strengthened  my  confidence  in  the  capacity  of  the 


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young  blind  to  respond  to  environmental  influences  of 
all  kinds ;  that  a  certain  measure  of  freedom  is  whole- 
some for  them;  and  that  the  daily  service  they  can 
render  to  others  or  towards  their  own  keep  at  school 
counts  for  more  in  the  preparation  for  life  than  does 
rigid  discipline  and  concentration  upon  school  in- 
struction. The  difference  in  the  two  reconstruc- 
tions lies  then  in  the  different  emphasis  on  liberty  and 
service.  If  the  Perkins  Institution  responds  to  its  new 
conditions  as  favorably  as  the  Pennsylvania  Institution 
has  done  I  shall  be  more  than  content. 

A  brief  survey  of  the  Perkins  Institution  at  Water- 
town  which  here  follows,  together  with  the  plans  ac- 
companying this  report,  will  perhaps  furnish  a  clear 
idea  of  what  we  have.  It  is  therefore  substituted  for 
a  more  extended  description. 

Tpie  New  Perkins  at  Watertown,  Mass. 

Site.  —  Five  and  one-half  miles  from  Boston  City 
Hall. 

Four  and  one-half  miles  from  Symphony  Hall. 

Three  miles  from  Harvard  University. 

Within  6  miles  of  four  other  colleges. 

Easily  accessible  by  steam  or  trolley. 

Within  ten  minutes'  walk  of  a  flourishing  village 
center  and  all  the  usual  churches. 

Fronting  for  1,600  feet  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Charles  River  basin  and  the  Metropolitan  Park  system. 

Thirty-four  acres  of  land,  an  old  estate,  diversified 
with  shade  trees,  orchards,  gardens,  playgrounds,  and 
a  pond. 

Buildings.  —  The  conditions  offered  gave  the  archi- 


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tect  almost  a  free  hand  to  satisfy  requirements  as  to 
health,  practicalness  and  aesthetic  grouping. 

Character  of  Buildings.  —  Fireproof,  low,  narrow, 
yet  relieved  with  gables  and  bays,  affording  maximum 
of  light  and  air.  Practically  all  living  and  sleeping 
rooms  given  southern  exposure.  Brick  with  slate  roof, 
Tudor  Gothic  style ;  wholesomely  simple  and  yet  beau- 
tiful in  lines  and  coloring.  Cartouches  significant  in 
the  history  of  the  blind  are  introduced  in  spots.  There 
is  a  lofty,  central  tower  and  belfry. 

Grouping.  —  Two  main  divisions,  a  lower  and  an 
upper  school,  each  complete  and  independent,  except 
for  a  common  tunnel  connection  with  power  house  and 
service  building. 

1.  Lower  school  (2  kindergartens  and  2  primary 
schools),  4  independent  families,  each  with  its  own 
matron  and  teachers,  dining  room,  kitchen,  play  clois- 
ters, etc. ;  also  with  its  own  set  of  classrooms  attached, 
—  all  under  one  roof,  enclosing  a  great  court,  155  x 
120  feet. 

2.  Upper  school,  nine  cottages  in  two  groups,  sepa- 
rated by  the  main  or  school  and  administration  build- 
ing. Four  families  and  a  domestic  science  house  for 
the  girls,  four  for  the  boys. 

Isolated  buildings  are:  a  little  hospital,  containing 
four  separate  suites,  each  with  its  kitchenet ;  also  den- 
tist's  and  oculist's  rooms.  A  power  house  and  service 
building:  boiler,  generating  and  refrigerating  rooms, 
storerooms,  bakery,  laundry;  kitchen,  dining  room  and 
quarters  for  10  men;  rooms  for  the  Howe  Memorial 
Press.    Director's  private  residence. 

The  main  building  is  constructed  about  two  hollow 


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squares,  forming  a  girls'  and  a  boys'  quadrangle.  The 
north  and  south  axis  building,  common  to  the  courts, 
is  a  museum  of  teaching  objects.  In  this  axis  are  also 
an  assembly  room  and  a  swimming  pool  and,  across  it 
at  the  southern  end,  a  gymnasium  with  roof  rink. 
There  is  a  great  hall  for  public  entertainment,  dra- 
matics and  dancing;  an  equally  large  library,  ample 
rooms  for  music  library,  music  teaching  and  practice 
and  for  piano  tuning,  and  all  the  needed  classrooms  for 
girls'  school  and  boys'  school  and  for  their  manual 
training. 

The  cottages  of  the  girls  (like  those  of  the  boys)  are 
under  one  roof  and  make  three  sides  of  a  rectangular 
' '  close, ' '  270  X  60  feet.  Down  its  center  runs  a  20  foot 
brick  walk,  connecting  with  the  main  building. 

A  cottage  family  is  a  unit  and  consists  of  a  matron, 
4  teachers,  a  helper  who  cooks,  half  the  time  of  a  second 
helper,  and  20  girls  or  boys  of  grammar  and  high 
school  age.  The  house  is  complete,  with  kitchen,  dining 
room,  living  room,  shower  bathrooms,  etc.  No  dormi- 
tory, but  the  small  room  plan,  every  one  having  a 
sunny  exposure. 

All  buildings  are  planned  to  be  readily  kept  in  order, 
as  far  as  possible  by  the  pupils  themselves,  the  example 
being  set  by  teachers  and  officers,  all  of  whom  per- 
sonally care  for  their  own  rooms.  The  floors  are 
mainly  battleship  linoleum,  cemented  down  and 
bounded  by  rounded  or  hospital  base.  Some  floors 
are  tiled,  some  are  ''  Puritan."  The  dadoes  are 
painted  burlap;  the  doors,  flush  panel;  the  windows, 
outward  opening  casements.  While  everything  is  sim- 
ple, it  is  yet  beautiful.    The  institution  aspect  is  want- 


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ing;  instead  there  is  created  the  pleasant  atmosphere 
of  home  in  which  every  one  has  his  part  to  perform. 

Object  of  the  Perkins  Institution.  —  The  training  of 
blind  boys  and  girls  to  live  lives  of  happiness  and  effi- 
ciency, both  in  the  institution  and  in  the  world.  Hence 
it  must  be 

A.  A  laboratory  in  which  shall  be  possible  plenty 
of  hard  work  and  play  and  the  maximum  of  personal 
service  from  pupils  and  staff  alike ;  and 

B.  A  place  of  attraction  to  all  —  first,  to  those  who 
live  and  labor  there,  and,  second,  to  visitors  —  to  the 
public  who  are  to  be  the  future  employers  of  the 
graduates. 

The  Perkins  Institution  has  not  built  larger  —  that 
is,  for  more  pupils ;  but  for  better  service  to  all. 

It  is  now  a  truly  inspirational  center  of  educational 
training  for  blind  youth.  Its  location  and  the  character 
of  its  buildings  have  put  it  in  the  public  eye.  Inter- 
ested visitors  and  students  of  special  education  and 
social  work  are  welcome  at  any  time. 

A  tablet  on  an  outer  face  of  the  main  building  reads 
thus :  — 

This  school  for  the  blind  children  of  New  England  was  founded 
by  Dr.  John  D.  Fisher,  incorporated  in  1829,  and  opened 
under  Dr.  Samuel  Gridley  Howe  in  1832,  with  six  pupils, 
at  the  house  of  his  father.  It  removed  in  1833  to  the 
house  of  its  benefactor,  Thomas  Handasyd  Perkins,  in 
Pearl  Street,  Boston,  and  from  there  in  1839  to  the 
Mount  Washington  House,  South  Boston,  and  in  1912  to 
this  site. 

Eespectfully  submitted, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Director. 

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FIFTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind. 

The  Choir  has  the  assistance  of 
Miss  Edith  Bullard,  Soprano ;  Mrs.  Mary  Whiting  Pietersz,  Alto ; 

Mr.  William  Hicks,  Tenor;  Mr.  Nelson  Raymond,  Baritone. 
And  an  orchestra  of  players  from  the  Boston  Symphony  Orchestra. 
Jordan  Hall,  Wednesday  Evening,  April  24,  1912,  at  8  o'clock. 

The  Program. 

PART  ONE. 

Chorus,  with  orchestra.  Bridal  Chorus  from  "  The  Rose  Maiden," 

F.  H.  Cowen 

Part  songs  (a  eapella) : 

The  Long  Day  Closes, Sir  Arthur  Sullivan 

On  the  Sea,   ........         Mendelssohn 

The  Aeolian  Harp, F.J.  Sawyer 

Chorus,  with  pianoforte,  "  The  Vagabonds,"    .        .      Eaton  Faning 

PART  TWO. 

The  Oratorio  of  Elijah,  Part  L,      •        •        •        •         Mendelssohn 

Characters  represented. 

Elijah,  bass ;  Obadiah,  tenor ;  Ahab,  tenor ;  the  Widow,  soprano ; 

the  Youth,  soprano;  an  Angel,  alto;  People  and 

Priests  of  Baal,  Chorus. 


1832-1912. 
GRADUATING   EXERCISES    OF    THE    PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Thursday,  June  20,  1912. 

Program, 

Chorus,  "  Hail,  SmUing  Morn," Spofforth 

Essays : 

History  of  the  Labor  Movement  in  America,  Michael  James  Ryan 
Science  of  Criminology,  .  .  .  James  Augustus  Morang 
Advantages  and  Disadvantages  of  Trusts,  John  William  Jordan 
Progress  in  the  United  States,      .        .    William  Forest  Holbrook 


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Girls'  Glee  Club,  "  Swing  Song,"    . 

Essays :  Our  School  in  Retrospect : 
Its  Growth,  the  Literary  Department, 
Home  Life  and  Industrial  Training,  . 
Physical  Training,  .  .  .  . 
Our  Library,  .  .  .  .  . 
Music  Department,  .  .  .  . 
A  Poem, 

Presentation  of  Diplomas. 

Chorus,  "  The  Twenty-third  Psalm," 


Lohr 


Mary  Isabelle  Curran 
Anastasia  Mary  Walsh 
Juliet  Rosaley  Perrella 
.  Marguerite  Langdon 
.  Flora  Mabel  Parcher 
.  Alice  Marie  Finnigan 


.    Neidlinger 


Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1912. 
girls'  department. 


Mary  Isabelle  Curran. 
Marguerite  Langdon. 
Juliet  Rosaley  Perrella. 


Alice  Marie  Finnigan. 
Flora  Mabel  Parcher. 
Anastasia  Mary  Walsh. 


boys'  department. 


WUliam  Forest  Holbrook. 
James  Augustus  Morang. 


John  William  Jordan. 
Michael  James  Ryan. 


PIANOFORTE  NORMAL  DEPARTMENT. 

Francesco  lerardi.  I         Margaret  S.  Ryan. 

Class  Colors:  Light  Blue  and  White. 
Class  Motto :  "  Possunt  Quia  Posse  Videntur." 


THE  PERKINS  ATHLETIC  ASSOCIATION. 

Records  made  in  an  Indoor  Contest,  Saturday,  March  2,  1912, 

2  o'clock  p.m. 

Truman  L.  Butterpield,  Physical  Director. 
Rope  climb  (16  feet  for  time),      ....    4%  seconds. 

Twenty-yard  dash, 2%  seconds. 

Fence  vault, 6  feet  1  inch. 

Standing  broad  jump, 9  feet  V/2  inches. 

Three  standing  broad  jumps,        .        .        .        .28  feet  1  inch. 

Standing  high  jump,     .         .         ...         .         .4  feet  4  inches. 

Chinning, 34  times. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Conceets,  Recitals  and 

Opeeas. 

To  Maj.  Heney  Lee  Higginson,  througli  Mr.  C.  A.  Ellis, 
for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts  in 
Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  RicHAED  !N"ewman,  for  twenty-two  tickets  for  each 
of  a  series  of  recitals  in  Steinert  Hall. 

To  "  friends,"  for  three  season  tickets  for  the  opera ;  and 
to  another  friend  for  the  use  of  an  opera  box  for  a  week  in 
December. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Adamowski,  for  seventeen  tickets 
for  a  "  lesson  recital  "  in  Steinert  Hall. 

To  the  Music  Depaetment  of  Boston,  for  an  average  of 
fifty  tickets  for  a  series  of  municipal  concerts  in  several  of 
the  high  school  buildings  in  Boston. 

To  Mrs.  E.  S.  GouLSTON,  for  twenty  tickets  for  a  concert 
at  Boston  Theatre. 

To  Miss  Isabel  Eloeence,  for  a  general  invitation  to  a 
performance  of  Greek  plays  and  dances  by  her  pupils. 

To  Mr.  Eeancis  C.  Nelson,  for  four  tickets  for  a  piano- 
forte recital  at  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music. 

II.  —  Acknowledgments  foe  Recitals,  Lectuees  and 
Readings  given  in  cue  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Aelo  Bates,  for  a  lecture  on  "  The  Early  Growth 
of  the  Drama." 

To  Prof.  E.  Chaelton  Black,  for  a  lecture  on  "  Charles 
Dickens." 


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To  Mrs.  Lauea  E.  Richaeds,  for  a  lecture  on  "  The  Eng- 
lish  Language." 

To  Dr.  James  Todd,  for  a  lecture  on  "  Dr.  Matheson." 
To  the  Rev.  Alexandee,  Blackbuen,  for  a  lecture  on 
"  Abraham  Lincoln." 

To  Miss  Maey  Caeoline  Ceawfoed,  for  a  reading  from 
her  book,  "  Romantic  Days  in  Old  Boston." 

To  Miss  Alice  Foetin,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 
To  Mr.  Feancis  C.  ISTelson,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

III.  —  Acknowledgments   foe  Peeiodicals   and   News- 

papees. 
The  N.  E.  Journal  of  Education,  Youth's  Companion,  Our 
Dumb  Animals,  The  Christian  Register,  The  Missionary 
Herald,  The  Well-Spring,  Woman's  Journal,  Collier's 
Weekly,  American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  The  fitude,  Tho 
Mentor,  Daily  Advocate,  The  Silent  Worker,  The  California 
ISTev^s,  The  Ohio  Chronicle,  The  Michigan  Mirror,  The  West 
Virginia  Tablet,  The  Washingtonian,  The  Colorado  Index, 
The  Matilda  Ziegler  Magazine  for  the  Blind  (embossed), 
Christian  Record  (embossed),  The  Jamaica  Plain  News. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  foe  Gifts  and  Seevices. 

Dr.  E.  G.  Beackett  and  Dr.  Claeence  J.  Blake,  for  pro- 
fessional services. 

Massachusetts  C  habitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infiemaey, 
for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Mr.  Wallace  L.  Pieece,  for  defraying  the  cost  of  pub- 
lishing in  Braille  Dickens's  "  Great  Expectations." 

Mr.  Aethue  p.  Schmidt,  for  establishing  a  musical  schol- 
arship. 


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Miss  Frances  E.  Morse,  for  a  Vera  music  box,  with 
ninety-eight  records,  given  in  memory  of  her  mother. 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Rogers  and  another  friend,  for  records  for 
a  Victor  talking  machine. 

Miss  Mary  C.  Learned,  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Mrs. 
David  S.  Wood  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Haswell,  for  gifts  of 
money. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  for  a  sleigh  ride  and  fruit. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley,  the 
Misses  Slocum,  Mr.  G.  A.  White,  and  Mr.  Frank  Mc- 
Laughlin, for  fruit,  ice-cream,  and  vegetables;  and  Mrs. 
Gray  for  toys. 

Rev.  M.  R.  Deming,  for  a  day's  outing  at  Sharon,  by 
automobiles  furnished  by  the  Boston  Automobile  Dealers' 
Association,  through  Mr.  Chester  I.  Campbell. 

Dr.  John  Dixwell,  curator  of  the  Hospital  Music  Fund, 
and  Miss  Polly  Flynt,  for  entertainments. 

Mr.  C.  B.  R.  Hazletine^  Miss  Harriet  B.  Hazletine, 
and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Calvert,  for  books. 

Mrs.  A.  P.  Spaulding,  for  Christmas  cards. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  WATERTOWN. 


Abbott,  Edna  M. 
Ackley,  Addie  May. 
Anderson,  Elizabeth  D. 
Anderson,  Muriel  C. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Billow,  Euth  K. 
Brannick,  Elizabeth. 
Chippendale,  Eliza. 
Cody,  Eaehel. 
Cohen,  Alice. 
Connell,  Agnes  F. 
Connelly,  Elsie  M. 
Cummings,  Elsie  M. 
Daiey,  Gertrude  C. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Duffy,  Nelly. 
Elder,  Gladys  M. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Forbush,  Vinnie  F. 
Forrest,  Elizabeth. 
Fullerton,  Hattie  M. 
Gadbois,  Eoselma. 
Gagnon,  Albertina. 
Gorman,  Marie  T. 
Gould,  Viola  M. 
Gray,  Nettie  C. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Hamilton,  Annie  A. 


Hayden,  Euth  E. 
Hill,  Lila  N. 
Hollowell,  Alice  G. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Jarvis,  Beatrice. 
Kelly,  Catherine  A. 
Kennedy,  Annie  M. 
Keough,  Annie  K. 
Kimball,  Eleanor. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lapham,  Ethel  M. 
Levesque,  Mary  A. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
Martin,  Lea. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miller,  Gladys  L. 
Miller,  Margaret. 
Minahan,  Annie  E. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Mueller,  Frances  M.  A. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Norton,  Agnes  E. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Parcher,  F.  Mabel. 
Perella,  Julia. 
Phillips,  Cora. 
Eyan,  Helen  L. 
Eyan,  Margaret  S. 
Shean,  Lucy  M. 


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SheflSeld,  Emma  J. 
Sibley,  Marian  C. 
Smith,  Elena. 
Stevens,  Ethel  M. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Stewart,  Alice  L. 
Stone,  Cora  M. 
Thompson,  Mary. 
Vilaine,  Mary  C. 
Viles,  Alison  P. 
Waddington,  Lillie. 
Walker,  Isabella  M. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Watkins,  Gladys  M. 
Welch,  Ellen. 
Westwood,  Laura  I. 
Wood,  Adeline  H. 
Bastow,  F.  William. 
Blood,  Howard  W. 
Brownell,  Herbert  N". 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Busby,  George  H. 
Ceppi,  Silvio. 
Chatterton,  Percival, 
Clarke,  Jerold  P. 
Cloukia,  Roy. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conboy,  George  A. 
Connor,  Francis. 
Cowan,  John  W. 
Cuervo,  Adolfo  G. 
Deming,  Harold  B. 
Devine,  Joseph  P. 
Dodge,  George  L. 
Dow,  Basil  E. 
Edwards,  Ralph  H. 
Fontana,  Dominic. 
Freeman,  Sylvester. 
Fulton,  James. 


Gifford,  Shirley  M.  A. 
Gray,  James. 
Hadley,  Kenneth  G. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Hamilton,  Oren  V. 
Holbrook,  William  F. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N. 
Hough,  J.  Stanley, 
lerardi,  Francesco. 
James,  Elysius. 
Lacomb,  Edward. 
Lawton,  Ernest. 
Le  Blanc,  I.  Medee. 
Lemieux,  Osarrio. 
Leonazio,  John. 
Lindsey,  Perry  E.  S. 
Mack,  Francis  J. 
Main,  Lewis  E. 
Matte,  William. 
McBride,  Thomas  T. 
Meehan,  Thaddeus. 
Moccio,  Sebastiano. 
Morang,  James  A. 
Morin,  Leander. 
Morrill,  Warren  A. 
Nutile,  Patrick. 
Pitman,  Arthur  G. 
Plourde,  Frederick. 
Ealph,  Arthur  E. 
Peeves,  W.  Stanley. 
Roberts,  Chester  N. 
Robertson,  D.  Clin. 
Rodrigo,  Joseph  L. 
St.  Pierre,  Alexander. 
Salesses,  Adrian. 
Salmon,  Peter  J. 
Sarsfield,  Henry  I. 
Sharp,  William  F. 
Simmons,  R.  Delano. 


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Souza,  Antone  G. 
Sparrell,  Alfred  W. 
Spence,  Samuel  J. 
Stringer,  Thomas. 
Sullivan,  Arthur  F. 
Tobin,  Paul. 
Tynan,  Maurice  I. 


Walker,  Eoger  T. 
Wallockstein,  Jacob. 
West,  Paul  L. 
Wheaton,  Donald  W. 
Woods,  Eichard  E. 
Yott,  Louis. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  JAMAICA  PLAIN. 


Abbott,  Josephine  E. 
Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Ahlgren,  Alice  L.  E. 
Angerman,  Josephine. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Brooks,  Edna  S. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Burnham,  Euth  E. 
Chesson,  Marion. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Cross,  Helen  A, 
Davis,  Euth  M. 
Desundo,  May  J. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Duke,  Marion  W. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Freeman,  Edith  M. 
Gallagher,  Celia  C. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Galvin,  Eose. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Grover,  L.  Ethel. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Jackson,  Harriet  B. 


Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kingsley,  Doris  E. 
Lanoue,  Edna, 
Lavita,  Jennie. 
Lyon,  Hazel. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Perry,  Gertrude. 
Pilling,  Agnes. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Eissman,  Lillian. 
Eoss,  Lena. 
Eousseau,  Lillian. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Savage,  Mary. 
Siebert,  Bessie  L. 
Smith,  Charlotte  W. 
Smith,  Gladys  B. 
Spencer,  Olive  E. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
IJhrig,  Mary  G. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Wilson,  E.  Edris. 


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Adams,  Winslow  H. 
Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bonasera,  Joseph. 
Booth,  Willard  E. 
Boulter,  Nelson  S. 
Brown,  A.  Stanley. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cooney,  John. 
Corrigan,  Wilfred. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Crowell,  Arthur  A. 
Curley,  Joseph  H. 
Cushman,  Ealph. 
Depoian,  Hrant  G. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Duffy,  Eugene  J. 
Duffy,  Leo. 
Duncan,  Wilbert. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Esslinger,  Bradford  G. 
Farria,  John  M. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Ferron,  Homer. 
Fitzgerald,  James  P. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gilmore,  Clarence  C. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Grant,  Alfred. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Hennick,  Dominick  A. 


Hennick,  Harold. 
Howard,  Thomas. 
Inghs,  John  S. 
Irish,  Clifford  H. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Macdonald,  John  F. 
Maziall,  John. 
McFarlane,  James. 
Mclntire,  Roger  W. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Myers,  Harold  P. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Poline,  John  J. 
Porter,  Charles  J. 
Easmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Ryan,  Frank. 
Sadow,  Leo. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Silva,  William  P. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Ward,  Frederick. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Weaver,  John  J. 
Wilcox,  Joseph  E. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS    FOR    THOMAS    STRINGER. 


From  September  1,  1911,  to  August  31,  1912. 

Brown,  Mrs.  J.  Conklin,  Berkeley,  Cal., $10  00 

Children's  Aid   Society  of  Washington,   Pa.,   through  Mrs.   A.   G. 

Happer, 22  00 

Seabury,  The  Misses,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,      .....  5  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D., 25  00 


$62  00 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,       .......       100  00 

Primary  Department  of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  First  Methodist 
Protestant  Church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  through  Mrs.  William 
McCracken 4  28 

$154  28 


46 


Boston,  Mass.,  November  21,  1912. 

Trustees  of  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the 

Blind. 

Gentlemen  :  — The  Committee  appointed  by  you  to  audit  the 
accounts  of  the  Treasurer  beg  to  report  that  they  employed  Messrs. 
Price,  Waterhouse  &  Company,  chartered  accountants,  to  make  the 
examination ;  and  transmit  herewith  their  report,  dated  November  21, 
1912. 

WARREN  MOTLEY, 
For  the  Committee. 


Boston,  Mass.,  November  19,  1912. 

Messrs.  Ezra  R.  Thayer  and  Warren  Motley,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind. 

We  have  audited  the  accounts  of  William  Endicott,  Jr.,  Treasurer 
of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31,  1912,  and 
have  found  that  all  income  from  investments,  and  the  proceeds  from 
sales  of  securities  during  the  year  have  been  accounted  for,  and 
that  the  donations,  subscriptions,  and  miscellaneous  receipts  as 
shown  by  the  books  have  been  deposited  in  bank  to  the  credit  of  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Institution. 

We  have  vouched  all  disbursements,  verified  the  bank  balances  as 
at  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year,  and  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  Motley 
counted  the  stocks,  bonds,  and  notes  receivable  in  the  custody  of 
the  Treasurer  on  October  7,  1912,  which  were  found  to  agree  with 
those  called  for  by  the  books,  and 

We  certify  that  the  attached  statements  of  the  Treasurer,  covering 
the  Institution,  Kindergarten,  and  Printing  Accounts,  correctly  set 
forth  in  summarized  form  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  August  31,  1912. 

PRICE,  WATERHOUSE  &  CO., 

Chartered  Accountants. 


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The  following  account  exliibits  the  state  of  property  as  entered 
upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1,  1912 :  — 

Book  Value. 
House,  Stephenson  Estate,  Medford,  .  .  .  $6,000  GO 
House,  20  Wall  St.,  Charlestown,        ....  2,700  00 

Houses,  64  and  66  Walker  St.,  Charlestown,    .        .  5,200  00 

Building,  205-207  Congress  St 75,800  00 

Building,  58-60  South  St., 97,500  00 

House,  402  Fifth  St 4,300  00 

House,  424  Fifth  St., 3,600  00 

House,  537  Fourth  St 3,900  00 

House,  543  Fourth  St 3,900  00 

House,  527  Broadway, 7,700  00 

$210,600  GO 


Real  Estate  used  by  the  Institution. 

Real  estate,  Broadway  and  Fourth  St $187,387  50 

House,  422  Fifth  St., 3,600  00 

Unimproved  land.  South  Boston,        ....  5,196  00 


196,183  50 

Real  estate,  Watertown 545,613  36 

Mortgage  notes, 14,000  00 

Stocks  and  Bonds. 

25  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R.,  $3,400  00 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     .        .  25,000  00 

100  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  .  13,978  50 

73  shares  United  Shoe  Machinery  Co.,  common,     .  4,745  GO 
$25,000,  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1934 23,000  00 

$40,000,  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1955 37,000  00 

$40,000,  New  York,  Ontario  &  Western  R.R.,  43, 

1992 38,000  00 

$25,000,  Long  Island  R.R.,  refundmg,  4s,  1949,       .  24,000  00 
$25,000,  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931, 22,857  14 

$35,000,  Illinois  Steel  Co.,  5s,  1913,    .        .        .        .  35,000  00 
$15,000,   Peoria  &   Northwestern   R.R.   Co.,   3|s, 

1926, 13,500  00 

$30,000,  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  3^s, 

1915, 28,000  00 

$37,000,  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  Co., 

general  mortgage,  4s,  1958, 35,500  00 

$50,000,  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding, 

43,  1943, 49,000  00 

$25,000,  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,    .        .  24,000  00 

$25,000,  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934,          .  24,500  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $401,480  64      $966,396  86 


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Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward $401,480  64      $966,396  86 

$5,000,  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929 4,450  00 

$25,000,  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4|s,  1931,        24,497  50 


430,428  14 

Accounts  receivable, 5,831  75 

Petty  cash  funds 500  00 

Cash 39,240  67 

Works  Department. 
Total  assets 9,714  94 

Music  Department. 
One  three-manual  pipe  organ,     .... 

One  Aeolian  grand, 

Two  reed  organs, 

Fifty-eight  pianofortes, 

Forty-eight  orchestral  instruments,    . 

Music  library, 


$9,000  00 

300  00 

25  00 

10,400  00 

1,200  00 

3,600  00 

24.525  00 

Library  Department. 

Books  in  common  print, $9,984  52 

Books  in  embossed  print 27,689  98 

Special  library, 

Miscellaneous. 
School  furniture  and  apparatus,  Watertown, 
Household  furniture,  Watertown, 
Provisions  and  supplies,  Watertown, 

Boys'  shop, 

Stable  and  tools 


11,068 

04 

48,742  54 

$8,670  66 

8,603 

41 

1,000 

00 

283 

34 

600 

00 

19,157  41 

$1,544,537  31 

The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Institution $540,572  79 

Stephen  Fairbanks  fund 10,000  00 

Harris  fund 80,000  00 

Richard  Perkins  fund 20,000  00 

Amount  carried  forward $650,572  79 


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Amount  brought  forward $650,572  79 

Stoddard  Capen  fund, 13,770  00 

In  memoriam,  Mortimer  C.  Ferris,     ....  1,000  00 

Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft  fund 6,000  00 

Frank  Davison  Rust  fund 2,500  00 

Mary  Lowell  Stone  fund, 2,000  00 

Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund 10,000  00 


Legacies:  — 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, 
Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 
Calvin  W.  Barker, 
Miss  Lucy  A.  Barker,   . 
Miss  Mary  Bartol, 
Thompson  Baxter, 
Robert  C.  Billings, 
Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf 
Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 
William  T.  Bolton, 
George  W.  Boyd,  . 
J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 
J.  Edward  Brown, 
T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham,  . 
Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Colburn, 
David  E.  Cummings,    . 
I.  W.  Danforth,      . 
John  W.  Dix, 
Martha  A.  French, 
Thomas  Gaffield,   . 
Albert  Glover, 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf, 
Joseph  B.  Glover, 
Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 
Charles  H.  Hayden, 
John  C.  Haynes,    . 
Joseph  H.  Heywood,     . 
Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 
Benjamin  Humphrey,  . 
Martha  R.  Hunt,  . 
Catherine  M.  Lamson, 
William  Litchfield, 
Robert  W.  Lord,    . 
Mrs.  Susan  B.  Lyman, 
The  Maria  Spear  Legacy  for  the 
Stephen  W.  Marston,    . 
Charles  Merriam, 
George  Francis  Parkman, 


dumb,  and  blind) 


Blind, 


dumb,  and  blind), 


$3,000  00 

2,500  00 

1,859  32 

5,953  21 

300  00 

322  50 

25,000  00 

4,000  00 

5,832  66 

555  22 

5,000  00 

268,391  24 

100,000  00 

5,000  00 

5,000  00 

4,803  07 

2,500  00 

10,000  00 
164  40 
5,800  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
6,471  23 

14,500  00 

1,000  00 

500  00 

3,708  32 

25,000  00 

10,000  00 
6,000  00 
7,951  48 
1,000  00 
4,809  78 

15,000  00 
5,000  00 
1,000  00 

50,000  00 


S685,842  79 


Amounts  carried  forward $618,922  43      $685,842  79 


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Amounts  brought  forward $618,922  43      $685,842  79 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Charlotte  B.  Richardson, 40,507  00 

Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Miss  Mary  L.  Ruggles, 3,000  00 

Nancy  C.  Rust 2,160  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer, 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Mary  W.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor,  Jr., 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner, 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Ann  White  Vose 12,994  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Thomas  Wyman 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young 5,000  00 

751,429  33 

Loans  payable.  Kindergarten 105,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 2,265  19 


$1,544,537  31 


Donations,  Institution  Account, 


Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M., 
Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P., 
Hemenway,  Miss  Clara, 
Kendall,  Miss  H.  W., 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold, 
Peabody,  The  Misses, 
Pratt,  R.  M., 
Prendergast,  J.  M., 
Seabury,  The  Misses, 
Sears,  Miss  Elizabeth, 
Siegel  Co.,  Henry, 
Wheelwright,  John  M., 
White,  C.  J.,  . 
Williams,  Ralph  B., 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 


$1  00 

15  00 

100  00 

20  00 

50  00 

50  00 

100  00 

25  00 

25  00 

25  00 

15  00 

100  00 

25  00 

25  00 


$576  00 
5,328  38 

$5,904  38 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as  en- 
tered upon  the  books  of  the  Instit^^tion  September  1,  1912:  — 

PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

Stocks  and  Bonds.  Book  Value. 

95  shares  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,        .        .        .  $23,038  87 

100  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,        .  8,737  00 

15  shares  Suffolk  Real  Estate  Trust,          .        .        .  15,000  00 

10  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust,       .        .        .  900  00 

25  shares  General  Electric  Co., 3,125  00 

477  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  .  65,962  23 
$10,000,  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R. 

(Montana  Extension),  4s,  1937,       ....  9,00000 
$10,000,  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s,  1921, .  10,000  00 
$2,000,  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Illi- 
nois Division),  3  ^s,  1949,          1,800  00 

$10,000,  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  3|s, 

1915, 9,300  00 

$30,000,  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929 26,950  00 

$10,000,  Seattle  Electric  Co.,  5s,  1930,       .        .       ..  10,400  00 
$10,000,  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 9,300  00 

$193,513  10 

Accounts  receivable, 250  15 

Cash, 3,563  45 

Stock  and  machinery, $3,000  00 

Books  (bound  and  unbound)  and  sheet  music,         .  7,500  00 

Electrotype  and  stereotype  plates,     ....  22,230  57 

32,730  57 


$230,057  27 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


PRINTING   FUND. 

General  funds  of  the  Department, $218,381  69 

Legacies:  — 

Joseph  H.  Center $1,000  00 

Augusta  Well 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable, 385  68 

$230,057  27 


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Donation,  Printing  Department. 
Leavitt,  Miss  Luella  K., $5  00 

"Works  Department. 


Balance  Sheet  —  August  31,  1912. 

Assets. 

Cash, $617  83 

Accounts  receivable, 3,841  81 

Stock  on  hand,  material,  etc., 4,265  30 

$8,724  94 

Tools  and  equipment, 990  00 

$9,714  94 
Liabilities. 
Balance  due  institution :  — 

Current  account, $8,273  91 

Net  profit  for  year 1,441  03 

$9,714  94 

Profit  and  Loss  Account. 

Revenue. 

Sales,  repairs,  etc., $31,131  99 

Recovered  from  accounts  receivable  charged  off    .  65  94 

$31,197  93 

Expenditures. 

Materials  used, $11,680  26 

Salaries  and  wages 13,653  53 

General  expense 3,852  49 

29,186  28 

Gross  profit $2,011  65 

Less:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,      .  $385  43 

Reserve  for  bad  debts, 185  19 

570  62 

Net  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1912 $1,441  03 


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ANALYSIS    OF    MAINTENANCE    ACCOUNT. 


Institution  at  South  Boston, 

Meats  and  fish $4,376  94 

Milk  and  dairy  products 5,396  36 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 2,008  27 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 990  52 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables 1,920  88 

Ice 406  18 

Laundry 170  67 

Light,  heat,  and  power 2,983  55 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods, 1,792  33 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 451  90 

Salaries  and  wages 33,827  79 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies,  including  concert,     .        .        .  797  52 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies 734  38 

Taxes  and  insurance, 1,452  83 

Repairs, 1,963  34 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 644  96 

Officers'  salaries 5,055  83 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 660  46 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,     .        .  469  41 

Stable  expenses, 190  05 


$66,294  17 
Kindergarten  at  Jamaica  Plain. 

Meats  and  fish, $2,332  81 

Milk  and  dairy  products 4,053  31 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 1,451  52 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 454  79 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables 1,143  97 

Ice, 341  33 

Laundry, 218  47 

Light,  heat,  and  power, 1,533  39 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods, 398  38 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 192  65 

Salaries  and  wages, 19,264  27 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies, 21  56 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 375  57 

Taxes  and  insurance, 510  43 

Repairs, 231  54 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 441  13 

Officers'  salaries 4,880  83 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 840  56 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,     .        .  673  67 

Stable  expenses 148  11 

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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as  entered 
upon  the  books  of  the  Kindergarten  September  1,  1912 :  — 

Book  Value. 

Building,  250-252  Purchase  St.,          ....  $76,800  00 

Building,  150-152  Boylston  St 125,000  00 

Building,  379-385  Boylston  St.,          ....  110,000  00 
Real  estate,  72  Wachusett  St.,  Forest  Hills  (sub- 
ject to  life  annuity), 7,600  00 

Seavems  Avenue, 3,700  00 

$323,100  00 

Real  estate  used  by  the  Kindergarten, 258,714  00 

Real  estate,  Watertown 367,831  13 

Stocks  and  Bonds. 

25  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R.,  $3,500  00 

300  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,        .  25,600  00 

100  shares  Albany  Trust 9,000  00 

6  shares  Caliimet  &  Hecla  Mining  Co.,     .        .        .  1,800  00 

645  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  .  89,155  75 

410  shares  General  Electric  Co.,         ....  61,450  00 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     .        .  25,000  00 
4  shares  Central  Vermont  R.R.,         .... 
$5,000,  Central  Vermont  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1920,    . 
$100,000,  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(C,  B.&  Q.),  joint  4s,  1921 91,000  00 

$23,000,  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Illi- 
nois Division),  3  |s,  1949 20,000  00 

$16,000,  Chicago,  Burlmgton  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Den- 
ver Extension),  4s,  1922 16,000  00 

$20,000,  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R. 

(Lake  Shore),  collateral  trust,  3 ^s,  1998,       .        .  18,000  00 
$10,000,  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  R.R.,  gen- 
eral mortgage,  4s,  1995 10,000  00 

$75,000,  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  4s,  1949,       .  73,000  00 
$30,000,  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 28,000  00 

$60,000,  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

4s,  1955 55,000  00 

$5,000,  Louisville  &  Jeffersonville  Bridge  Co.,  4s, 

1945, 4,500  00 

$15,000,  Puget   Sound   Electric   Ry.,    1st   consoli- 
dated, 5s,  1932 14,000  00 

$25,000,  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,     .        .  24,000  00 

$3,000,  City  of  Salem,  4s,  1912-14,     ....  3,000  00 

$20,000,  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.,  4s,  1926,          .        .  19,000  00 

$15,000,  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  4§s,  1928,     .        .        .  15,000  00 
$17,000,  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  R.R.,  5s, 

1921 18,000  00 


Amounts  carried  forward, $628,405  75     $949,645  13 


60 


Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward $628,405  75     $949,645  13 

$25,000,  Calumet  &  Hecla  Mining  Co.,  5  per  cent 

notes,  Feb.  18,  1919, 25,000  00 

$20,000,  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R., 

4|s,  1933 20,000  00 

$20,000,  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.,  Z\s,  1926,    .        18,000  00 
$13,000,  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.,  gen- 
eral mortgage,  4s,  1958 12,500  00 

$18,000,  Massachusetts  Gas  Co.,  4is,  1929,      .        .        17,640  00 
$65,000,  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934,  .        63,500  00 

$65,000,  American    Telephone   &    Telegraph    Co., 

collateral  trust,  4s,  1929 57,850  00 

$7,000,  Massachusetts  Gas  Co.,  4^s,  1931,        .        .  6,859  30 

849,755  05 

Loans  receivable,  Institution, 105,000  00 

Accounts  receivable, 3,496  29 

Petty  cash  funds 150  00 

Cash 21,087  49 

Music  Department. 
Nineteen  pianofortes, 3,420  00 

Miscellaneous. 
Household  furniture,  Jamaica  Plain,  .        .        .      $14,808  42 

Provisions  and  supplies,  Jamaica  Plain,    .        .        .  600  00 

Coal,  Jamaica  Plain, 400  00 

15,808  42 


$1,948,362  38 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Kindergarten,    ....  $645,719  48 

Mrs.  William  Appleton  fund, 13,000  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  fund, 500  00 

In  memory  of  William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,          .  1,000  00 

Miss  Helen  C.  Bradlee  fund 140,000  00 

Mrs.  M.  Jane  Wellmgton  Danforth  fund,          .        .  11,000  00 
Catherine  L.  Donnison  memorial  fund  (bequest  of 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Swan), 1,000  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Eliza  James  (Bell)  Draper,        .  1,500  00 

Amount  carried  forward, $813,719  48 


61 


Amount  brought  forward, $813,719  48 

Mrs.  Helen  Atkins  Edmands  fund 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Eugenia  F.  Farnham  fund,         ....  1-015  00 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Fay  fund 15,000  00 

Albert  Glover  fund, 1-000  00 

In  memoriam  A.  A.  C 500  00 

Moses  Kimball  fund I'OOO  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  fund 9,000  00 

Mrs.  Emeline  Morse  Lane  fund 500  00 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Matthews  fund 15,000  00 

Miss  Jeannie  Warren  Paine  fund 1,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman  fund 3,500  00 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Potter  fund 30,000  00 

John  M.  Rodocanachi  fund 2,250  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch  fund, 8,500  00 

Memorial  to  Frank  Davison  Rust 12,900  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  Taber  fund 622  81 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund 5,666  95 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales  fund, 10,000  00 

In  memory  of  Ralph  Watson 237  92 

Legacies:  — 

EmelieAlbee $150  00 

Michael  Anagnos 3.000  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  BaUey, 500  00 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Mrs.  EUen  M.  Baker, 13-053  48 

Miss  Mary  D.  Balfour 100  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10.000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  BUlings 10.000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  Bradford 100  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 168,391  24 

Miss  Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

John  W.Carter, 500  00 

Mrs.  Adeline  M.  Chapin 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  G.  Colburn 9-980  10 

Charles  H.  Colburn 1-000  00 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Miss  Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Miss  Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

Miss  Caroline  T.  Downes. 12,950  00 

George  E.  Downes. 3,000  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Amounts  carried  forward $286,956  45 


62 


,412  16 


$936,412  16 


Amounts  brought  forward $286,956  45     $936,412  16 


Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Dwight, 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 

Miss  Mary  Eveleth, 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Farwell, 

John  Foster,  . 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Gifford, 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 

Miss  Matilda  Goddard, 

Mrs.  Maria  L.  Gray,     . 

Mrs.  Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 

Mrs.  Josephine  S.  Hall, 

Mrs.  Olive  E.  Hayden, 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Hodges,  . 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 

Mrs.  Marion  D.  Hollingsworth, 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Jones,    . 

Mrs.  Maria  E.  Jones,    . 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Lambert, 

William  Litchfield, 

Elisha  T.  Loring,   . 

Sophia  N.  Low, 

Augustus  D.  Manson,  . 

Miss  Sarah  L.  Marsh,  . 

Miss  Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 

Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton, 

Mrs.  Mary  Abbie  Newell, 

Margaret  T.  Otis, 

Miss  Anna  R.  Palfrey, 

Miss  Helen  M.  Parsons, 

Mrs.  Richard  Perkins, 

Edward  D.  Peters, 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Phipps, 

Mrs.  Caroline  S.  Pickm; 

Mrs.  Helen  A.  Porter, 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter, 

Francis  S.  Pratt,    . 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  C.  Reed, 

Mrs.  Jane  Roberts, 

Miss  Dorothy  Roffe, 

Miss  Rhoda  Rogers, 

Miss  Edith  Rotch, 

Miss  Rebecca  Salisbury, 

Joseph  Scholfield, 

Mrs.  Eliza  B.  Seymour, 

Mrs.  Annie  E.  Snow, 

Adelaide  Standish, 

Amounts  carried  forward, 


4,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

500 

00 

5,000 

00 

7,931 

00 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

300 

00 

200 

00 

5,157 

75 

3,000 

00 

4,622 

45 

300 

00 

2,360 

67 

1,000 

00 

500 

00 

935 

95 

700  00 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

8,134 

00 

1,000 

00 

23,545 

55 

10,000 

00 

500 

00 

1.000 

00 

50 

00 

500 

00 

10,000 

00 

500 

00 

2,000 

00 

1,000 

00 

50 

00 

395,014 

44 

100 

00 

5,000 

00 

93,025 

55 

500 

00 

500 

00 

10,000 

00 

200 

00 

3,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

9,903 

27 

5,000 

00 

$931,987  08 

$936,412  16 


63 


Amounts  brought  forward $931,987  08     $936,412  16 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser  Fund 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer, 2,000  00 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Mrs.  Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Delia  D.  Thorndike, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Mrs.  Betsy  B.  Tohnan 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Miss  Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 4,000  00 

Mrs.  Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,  ....  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

The  May  Rosevear  White  Fund 500  00 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Miss  Betsey  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  WUey, 200  00 

Miss  Mary  W.  Wiley, 150  00 

Miss  Mary  Williams, 5,000  00 

Ahnira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 

1,011,702  62 

Accounts  payable, 247  60 


$1,948,362  38 


Donations,  Kindergarten  Account. 


Bacon,  Mary  E., $100  00 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K., 

Brewster,  Miss  Sarah  C, 

Draper,  Mrs.  George  A., 

Duncan,  Mrs.  Samuel  W., 

Fairbanks,  Mrs.  Caroline  L., 

Gardner,  George  A., 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 

Hill,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,  by  C.  S.  Hill 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,  in  memory  of  Alice  M.  C.  Matthews, 
Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union   Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Weymouth  and  Braintree,         .... 
S ,  Mrs 

$402  00 


64 


10 

00 

5 

00 

50 

00 

3 

00 

10 

00 

50 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

100 

00 

18 

00 

50 

00 

CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Thi'ough  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  IVIrs.   Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer :  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,676  00 

Donations, 2,079  00 

Cambridge   Branch, 278  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 101  00 

Lynn  Branch, 79  00 

Milton   Branch, 45  00 

Interest, 70  38 

$5,328  38 


65 


ANNUAL    SUBSCRIPTIONS    FOR    THE    PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Adelaide  F., 
Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo,     . 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H.,       . 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas,     . 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Ames,  Miss  Mary  S.,    . 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Anthony,  Mrs.  S.  Reed, 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 
Atkins,  Mrs.  Edwin  F., 
Ayer,  Mrs.  James  B.,    . 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 
Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Baker,  Miss  S.  P., 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Baldwin,  Mr.  E.  L., 
Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 
BaUou,  Mrs.  M.  M.,     . 
Bangs,  Mrs.  Francis  R., 
Barnes,  Mrs.  Amos, 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  H., 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 
Bates,  Mrs.  I.  Chapman, 
Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 
Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G.,       . 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  William  J., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Alanson, 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 
Blake,  Mr.  William  P., 
Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $202  00 


S5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

10  00 

3  00 

5  00 

1  00 

25  00 

.   25  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  §202  00 


Bolster,  Mrs.  Wilfred,  . 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Borden,  Mrs.  O.  M.,     . 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,   . 
Boynton,  Miss  Ella  F., 
Bradford,  Mrs.  C.  F.,   . 
Bradford,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Leverett, 
Brewer,  Mrs.  D.  C, 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S., 
Bridge,  Mrs.  J.  G.  (for  1911) 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon,  . 
Brown,  Miss  Augusta  M., 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Brown,  Mr.  C.  H.  C,   . 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James, 
Bullard,  Mrs.  William  S., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Burnham,  Mrs.  John  A., 
Burr,  Mrs.  Allston, 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Butler,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  N., 
Cabot,  Dr.  Arthur  T., 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Carter,  Mrs.  George  E., 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  E.  D., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  1395  00 


1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

66 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $395  00 


Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C, 

2  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R., 

1  00 

Cheney,  Mrs.  Arthur,  . 

10  00 

Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C, 

2  00 

Clark,    Mr.    B.    Preston,    in 

memory    of    his    mother 

Mrs.  B.  C.  Clark.      . 

5  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 

5  00 

Clark,  Mrs.  J.  J., 

2  00 

Clark,  Miss  Sarah  W., 

10  00 

Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen, 

5  00 

Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 

3  00 

Cobb,  Mrs.  Darius, 

1  00 

Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex.,  . 

10  00 

Codman,      Miss      Catherine 

Amory,    . 

5  00 

Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E., 

1  00 

Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 

2  00 

Conant,  Mrs.  W.  M.,    . 

2  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon, 

10  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 

1  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph, 

25  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F., 

5  00 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

2  00 

Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E.,      . 

5  00 

Covel,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

3  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E., 

10  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 

5  00 

Crane,  Mr.  Zenas, 

100  00 

Crehore,  Mrs.  G.  C,     . 

5  00 

Cumings,  Mrs.  J.  W.,   . 

2  00 

Curtis,  The  Misses, 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 

25  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  James  F., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  William  O., 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W.,  . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W.,    . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  G.  F., 

1  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 

2  00 

Gutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 

2  00 

Gutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

1  00 

Gutts,  Mrs.  H.  M., 

1  00 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben, 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

3  00 

Day,  Mr.  Frank  A.,      . 

25  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .  $738  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $738  00 


DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  G., 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket, 
Dixon,  Mrs.  Lewis  S., 
Dreyfus,  Mrs.  Carl,  in  mem- 
ory of  Hettie  Lang  Shu- 
man, 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A., 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edgar,  Mrs.  G.  L., 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 
Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 
Elms,  Mrs.  James  C.,  . 
Emery,  Mrs.  Mark, 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  William  C, 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,    . 

F 

Fairbanks,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  . 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B., 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,      . 
Flint,  Mrs.  D.  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Foster,  Mrs.  Anna  S.,  . 
Fottler,  Mrs.  Jacob, 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,  . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert, 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Joseph  T., 
Gill,  Mr.  Abbott  D.,     . 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,    . 
Gillett,  Mr.  S.  Lewis,    . 
Goodhue,  Mrs.  George  H., 

Amount  carried  forward. 


2  00 
5  00 
2  00 
5  00 
2  00 


5  00 

.       10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.       20  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

.  $989  00 

67 


Amount  brought  forward, 

Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,     . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H. 
Grant,  Mrs.  Robert,     . 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,   . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F.,      . 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Greenleaf,  Mrs.  Lyman  B., 
Guild,  Miss  Harriet  J., 
Gunsenhiser,  Mrs.  A.,  . 
Hall,  Miss  Laura  E.,    . 
Harding,  Mrs.  Edgar,  . 
Harrington,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L., 
Hartley,  Mrs.  Harry,    . 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G., 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,  Mrs.  F.  L., 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hight,  Mrs.  C.  A., 
HHls,  Mrs.  S.  E., 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,     . 
Hollander,  Mrs.  Louis  P., 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Houghton, Miss  Elizabeth  G. 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,     . 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,   . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howe,  Mr.  George  E., 
Howe,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Hudson,  Mrs.  John  E., 
Hunneman,       Miss       Eliza^ 

beth  A., 
Hunneman,  Mrs.  S.  W., 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 
Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 
Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C, 
Johnson,  Miss  Fannie  L., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1 


$989  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

15  00 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

15  00 

10  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

10  GO 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

25  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

10  00 

25  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 

1,285  00 

Amount  brought  forward,  $1,285  00 


10  00 


Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D., 
Joslin,  Mrs.  Herbert  A., 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S.,     . 
Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W., 
Kennard,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kimball,  The  Misses,   . 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Klous,  Mr.  Isaac, 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lane,  Mrs.  Benjamin  P., 
Lane,  Mrs.  D.  H., 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George  C,    . 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 
Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 
Little,  Mrs.  D.  M., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C,    . 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K, 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S., 
Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,   . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G., 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Marsh,  Mrs.  Robert',    . 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Means,  Mrs.  William  A., 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,      . 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
MUls,  Mrs.  D.  T., 
Monroe,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Anthony  S., 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,   . 


A77iount  carried  forward,    $1,792  00 


1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

.   10  00 

.   50  00 

1  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.  100  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

,   50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

68 


Amount  brought  forward,  $1,792  00 


Neibuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr., 
North,  Mrs.  James  N., 
Noyes,  Mrs.  G.  D., 
Nugent,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Oliver,  Mrs.  S.  P., 
Olmsted,  Mrs.  J.  C,     . 
Osborn,  Mrs.  Anna  F., 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Page,  Mrs.  L.  J., 
Paine,  Mrs.  William  D., 
Palfrey,  Mrs.  John  C, 
Parker,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas, 
Perry,  Mrs.  Claribel  N., 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,   . 
Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr., 
Porter,  Miss  Nellie  E., 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M. 
Proctor,  Mrs.  H.  H.,     . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 
Putnam,  Miss  Georgina  L., 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Putnam,  Miss  Sarah  G., 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A., 
Raymond,  Mrs.  Henry  E., 
Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Reed,  Mrs.  William  Howell 
Rice,  Mrs.  David  Hall, 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W., 
Rice,  Mrs.  William  B., 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 
Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,   . 
Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,   . 
Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E., 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L., 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal,  . 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,050  00 


1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

3  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

.   15  00 

1  00 

5  00 

,   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

,   20  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

10  00 

2  00 

10  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $2,050  00 


Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 
Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 
Russell,  Mrs.  Elliott,    . 
Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 
Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,       . 
Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M., 
in  memory  of  his  mother, 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall, 
Sampson,  Miss  H.  H.,  . 
Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,     . 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,  . 
Scammon,    The    Misses,    i 
memory  of  their  mother, 
Schmidt,  Mr.  Arthur  P., 
Schouler,  Mr.  James,    . 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 
ory  of  her  mother,    Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer, 
Sears,  Mrs.  Frederic  R., 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Severence,  Mrs.  Pierre  C, 
Shapleigh,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Shattuck,  Mrs.  Amalia  S.  (for 

1911-12), 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  Robert  Gould, 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Sherman,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sherman,  Mrs.  William  H., 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S., 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D., 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Slade,  Mrs.  D.  D., 
Snelling,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Sprague,  Miss  Mary  C, 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett, 
Steese,  Mrs.  Edward,   . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Frederic,    . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 


1  00 
3  00 

3  00 
5  00 

4  00 


10  00 

1  00 

2  00 
10  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 


5  00 

25  00 

25  00 

25  00 

3  00 

2  00 

5  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


2 
1 
1 
5 
5 
5 
5 
1 
5 
25  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


15  00 
1  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,334  00 


69 


5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

15  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   $2,334  00 


Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Symonds,  Miss  Lucy  Harris, 
Talbot,  Miss  Leslie, 
Talbot,  Miss  Marjorie, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Tappan,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Wm.  O.,  . 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  E.,  . 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C. 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,  . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L. 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A. 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Harriot, 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge, 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A., 
Wead,  Mrs.  Leslie  C, 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
10  00 

2  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,509  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   $2,509  00 


Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Davis,    . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor, 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
Wentworth,  Mrs.  O.  M., 
West,  Mrs.  Preston  C.  F., 
Wheelwright,  The  Misses, 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H., 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Whitwell,  Mrs.  Frederick  A. 
Williams,  The  Misses, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Harriet  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,   . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses, 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Wilson,  Miss  Annie  E., 
Wilson,  Miss  LDly  M., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,    . 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Wonson,  Mrs.  Harriet  A., 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Wright,  Mrs.  L.  A., 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 
Young,  Miss  Lucy  F., 
Young,  Mrs.  Mary  E., 


$2,676  00 


2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

.       25  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

DONATIONS. 


A  friend,     . 

$100  00 

A  friend,     . 

10  00 

Abbott,  Mrs.  J., 

20  00 

Adams,  Mr.  George,     . 

1  00 

Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 

5  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 

20  00 

Anonymous,  Milton,     . 

2  00 

Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  . 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .  $168  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $168  00 


Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 
Barnes,  Mr.  Charles  B., 
Bartlett,  The  Misses,    . 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 


2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

25  00 

25  00 

2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $232  00 


70 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $232  00  Amount  brought  forward,    .  $777  GO 


10  00 


3  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

.   50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

.   75  00 

.   10  00 

10  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   30  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

10  00 

50  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis,     . 
Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Boland,  Dr.  E.  S., 
Bowditch,  Mrs.  Alfred, 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
BuUard,  Mrs.  Wm.  L., 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Caryl,  Miss  Harriet  E., 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,    . 
Cheney,  Mrs.  Arthur,  . 
Chesson,  Mr.  Harold,  . 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C,  . 
Collamore,  Miss  Helen, 
Coolidge,  Mr.  John  T., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 
Crane,  Mrs.  Z.  Marshal, 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R., 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  George  C, 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 
DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 
Devlin,  Mr.  John  E.,    . 
Eager,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 
Ely,  Mrs.  Alfred  B.,      . 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 

F 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Fitzgerald,  Mrs.  Desmond, 
Flood,  Mrs.  Hugh, 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N., 
French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 
French,  Mr.  Wilfred  A., 
Gaston,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Goldthwait,  Mrs.  Joel, 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,  . 
Graves,  Mrs.  J.  L., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $777  00 


Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S., 
Griggs,  Mrs.  Thomas  B., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,     . 
Hamlin,  Mrs.  B.  Nason, 
Harris,  Miss  Francis  K., 
Hartwell,  Mr.  Henry  W., 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hawes,  The  Misses, 
Hazelton,  Mr.  C.  B.  R., 
Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel, 
Hill,  Mrs.  Lew  C, 
Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John,     . 
Howe,  The  Misses, 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,    . 
Hunneman,  Mrs.  S.  W., 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  . 
Hyde,  Mrs.  Thomas  W., 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 
L.    Thayer   through    Mrs 
Hannah  T.  Brown,    . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
Jenkins,  Mr.  Charles,  . 
Johnson,  Mrs.  F.  W.,    . 
Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  . 
Kennard,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N., 
King,  Mrs.  George  P., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  John  A., 
Lawrence,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John,  . 
Lins,  Mrs.  Ferdinand,  . 
Loring,  The  Misses, 
Loring,  Mrs.  Augustus  P., 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L.,    . 
Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,     . 
Marsh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M., 
Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 
Miner,  Mrs.  George  A., 
Mitton,  Mrs.  E.  J., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,182  00 


10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

25  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

.   20  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   20  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

.   30  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

71 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,182  00 


Morrill,  Miss  Amelia, 
Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W 
Morrill,  Miss  Fanny  E 
Nichols,  Mr.  Seth, 
Otis,  Mrs.  H.  F., 
Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F. 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T., 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S., 
Pitman,  Mrs.  B.  F., 
Porter,  Mrs.  I.  C, 
Potter,  Mrs.  William  H., 
Pratt,  Mr.  Robert  M., 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,   . 
Putnam,  Miss  Ellen  Day, 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H.,      . 
Raymond,  Fairfield  Eager, 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H.,     . 
Rhodes,  Miss  Florence  R., 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Richardson,  Mr.  Spencer  W 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederic  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  F., 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  L.,    . 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,  . 
Rust,  Mrs.  Nathaniel  J., 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,  . 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sherburne,  Mrs.  F.  S., 
Slattery,  Mrs.  William, 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
Soren,  Mr.  John  H.,      . 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 


50  00 
25  00 
20  00 


5 

3 

2 

5 

3 

5 

3 

5 
100  00 

5  00 

5  00 
15  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
5  00 
2  00 

25  00 
2  00 

10  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   $1,551  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,551  00 


Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Storrow,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Swift,  Mrs.  Edwin  C., 
Tapley,  Mrs.  Amos  P., 
Thayer,  Mrs.  William  G., 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tolman,  Mr.  James  P., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Turner,  Miss  Abby  W., 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett,     . 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee, 
Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W., 
Watson,  Miss  Abby  L., 
Watson,  Mrs.  R.  C,     . 
Weld,  Rev.  G.  F., 
Wesson,  Miss  Isabel,    . 
Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C,     . 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  A.  S.,     . 
White,  Mr.  George  A., 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitman,  Mr.  James  H., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Willcomb,  Mrs.  George, 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Stephen  H., 
WUliams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,    . 
Woodworth,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Zerrahn,  Mrs.  Franz  E., 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis, 


10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 
10  00 
20  00 

200  00 
10  00 

6  00 
5  00 

1  00 
25  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 
25  00 
25  00 

3  00 
5  00 

2  00 

3  00 
10  00 

5  00 

25  00 

5  00 

20  00 

10  00 

5  00 

25  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

$2,079  00 


CAMBRIDGE  BRANCH. 


Abbott,  Mrs.  Edward, 

$3  00 

Abbott,  Mrs.  Edwin  H., 

10  00 

Agassiz,  Mr.  Max  (donation). 

10  00 

Aldrich,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 

1  00 

Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona- 

tion),      .... 

10  00 

Batchelder,  Miss  Isabel, 

1  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .     $35  00 


Amount  brought  forward,  .  $35  00 

Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  .  1  00 

Brooks,  Miss  Martha  W.,  .  5  00 

Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  .  2  00 

Carstein,  Mrs.  H.  L.,    .  .  1  00 

Dana,  Mrs.  R.  H.  (donation) ,  2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,  .  $46  00 


72 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $46  00 


Davis,  Mrs.  W.  M., 
Deane,  Mrs.  Walter,     . 
Durant,  Mrs.  W.  B.,     . 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Frank  I.  (dona- 
tion), 
Farlow,  Mrs.  William  G., 
Folsom,  Mrs.  Norton,  . 
Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C, 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno,    . 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Gale,  Mrs.  Justin  E.,    . 
Glover,  Mrs.  H.  R.,      . 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Goodwin,  Miss  Amelia  M., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

(donation) , 
Hopkinson,  Mrs.  J.  P., 
Horsford,  Miss  Katharine, 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Howe,  Miss  Sara  R.,    . 
Ireland,    Miss    Catharine    ] 

(donation) , 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,   . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $170  00 


2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.       50  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

3  00 

3  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $170  00 


Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P.,    . 

5  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 

5  00 

Nichols,  Mrs.  J.  T.  G., 

2  00 

Page,  Miss  A.  S.  (donation). 

1  00 

Palfrey,  Miss  S.  H.,      . 

10  00 

Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin, 

1  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 

2  00 

Roberts,  Mrs.  C.  S.,      . 

10  00 

Sargent,  Mr.  D.  A., 

5  00 

Saville,  Mrs.  H.  M.,      . 

1  00 

Sawyer,  Miss  E.    M.    (dona- 

tion),      .... 

2  00 

Sedgwick,  Miss  M.  Theodora, 

3  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  James  B.  (do- 

nation), .... 

5  00 

Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 

10  00 

TUton,  Mrs.  H.  N., 

2  00 

Toppan,  Mrs.  R.  N.  (dona- 

tion),      .... 

10  00 

Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter,     . 

2  00 

White,  Mrs.  M.  P., 

5  00 

Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 

5  00 

Williston,  Mrs.  L.  R.  (dona- 

tion),       .... 

5  00 

Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 

15  00 

Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 

2  00 

$278  00 


DORCHESTER   BRANCH. 


$1  00 
1  00 
1  00 

5  00 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  S.  E.,      . 
Bennett,  Miss  M.  M., 
Bird,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do 

nation),  . 
Burditt,   Mrs.  C.  A.   (dona- 
tion for  1911-12),      . 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S., 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,   . 

(donation), 
Copeland,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Christopher  R., 
Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewell  A., 
Hall,  Miss  Adelaide,     . 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $25  00 


4 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $25  00 


Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K., 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C,   . 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C, 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Robinson,  Miss  Anna  B., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Sharp,  Miss  Elizabeth  B.  (do 

nation),  . 
Smith,  Miss  Harriett  J., 
Soule,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  P., 
Steams,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $53  00 


., 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

73 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $53  00 


Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard,     . 

1  00 

Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 

1  00 

Stearns,  Henry  D.,  In  mem- 

ory of ,     . 

1  00 

Stearns,  Miss  Katherine, 

1  00 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Fred  P., 

4  00 

Torrey,  Mrs.  Elbridge  (dona- 

tion),      .... 

25  00 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$86  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   .     $86  00 


Whitcher,  Mr.  Frank  W.  (do- 
nation), . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royal,  . 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S., 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,  . 
Wood,  Mrs.  Wm.  A.,  . 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


$101  00 


LYNN  BRANCH. 


$2  00 


Averill,  Miss  M.  J., 

Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  K. 
(donation), 

Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 

Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A., 
(donation), 

Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,  . 

Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J.,    . 

Haven,  Miss  Rebecca  E.  (do- 
nation), .  .  .  . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $41  00 


10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

15 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $41  00 

Hollis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J.  (dona- 
tion),      ... 

Page,  Miss  E.  D., 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 

Spalding,  Mr.  Rollin  A.  (do- 
nation), .  .  .  , 

Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B., 


$79  00 


10 

00 

1 

00 

20 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

MILTON  BRANCH. 


Clarke,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes,  .  $1  00 

Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B.,  .  1  00 

Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray,  .  10  00 

Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L.,  .  10  00 

Jaques,  Mrs.  Francis,   .  .  5  00 
Klous,   Mrs.  Henry  D.,   for 

1911-12,            .          .  .  7  00 
Morse,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.  (do- 
nation), .          .         .  .  1  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $35  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $35  00 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar,       .          .  5  00 
Safford,  Mrs.  N.  M.   (dona- 
tion)   2  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Stephen  A.,      .  2  00 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  E.  D.,         .  1  00 


$45  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse 
the  above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  William  Endicott^  Jr., 
Treasurer,  No,  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director, 
Edwaed  E.  Allen",  Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which 
they  may  find  in  it. 

WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Jr.,  Treasurer. 

No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 

74 


FORM    OF   BSQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of   the  treasurer  of   the   corporation  is  as 

follows : 

Mr.    WILLIAM    ENDICOTT,    Jr., 

No.   115  Devonshire  Street, 

Boston,  riass. 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


EIGHTY-SECOND    ANNUAL    REPORT 
OF   THE    TRUSTEES 


1913 


BOSTON     ^     ^     ^     Jt     jZ    1914 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


®I|e  Olnmrnonm^altli  nf  MnB^ntl\nsitttB. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watbrtown,  October  21,  1913. 

To  the  Hon.  Frank  J.  Donahue,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Deak  Sir  :  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 

use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-second  annual 

report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 

thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 

accompanying  documents. 


EespectfuUy, 


EDWAED  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION, 


1913-1914. 


FRANCIS    HENRY    APPLE  TON,    President. 
N.   P.   HALLO  WELL,    Vice-President. 
WILLIAM   ENDICOTT,   Jr.,   Treasurer. 
EDWARD   E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD  OF  TBXTSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON. 

WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES. 

THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 

N.  P.  HALLOWELL. 


JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE. 


STANDING    COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting:  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1914. 

January,  .  Francis  Henrt  Appleton. 

February,  .  Mrs.  George  Anqier. 

March,    .  .  N.  P.  Hallowell. 

April,      .  .  Paul  R.  Frothingham. 

May,       .  .  James  A.  Lowell. 

June,      .  .  Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick. 


1914. 

July,       .  .  Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 

August,  .  .  Annette  P.  Rogers. 

September,  .  George  H.  Richards. 

October,  .  William  L.  Richardson. 

November,  .  Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 

December,  .  Albert  Thorndike. 


Committee  on  Education. 
Gboboe  H.  Richards. 
Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

N.  P.  Hallowell. 
Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

James  A.  Lowell. 
Albert  Thorndikb. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN.  Director. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    AT    THE    UPPER    SCHOOL. 


LITERARY 


Boys'  Section. 

WILLIAM  G.  PARK. 

Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA  A.  BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANGWORTHY. 

WILLIAM  MULLINS. 

Miss  MARGARET  H.  ALLEN. 

ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 


DEPARTMENT. 

Girls'  Section. 

Miss  GRACE  B.  BICKNELL. 
Mrs.  vera  M.  LOCKE. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE  M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  MARY  E.  SAWYER. 
Miss  ABBIE  G.  POTTLE. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE  H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  to  The  Deaf-Blind. 

Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 

Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  GRACE  E.  PORTER. 


DEPARTMENT  OP  PHYSICAL  TRAINING. 

THOMAS  H.  HINES.  |      Miss  MARY  E.  SAWYER. 

Miss  LENNA  D.  SWINERTON. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN  M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN  F.  HARTWELL. 


DEPARTMENT  OP  MUSIC. 
EDWIN  L.  GARDINER. 

Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 

Miss  JANE  M.  BACON. 

Miss  BLANCHE  A.  BARDIN. 

Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  MANUAL  TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN  H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN  C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES  M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH  ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN  E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  ELIZABETH  HOXIE. 


DEPARTMENT  OF  TUNING  PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN  H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLERKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA  M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  LOUISE  P.  HUNT,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA  GARDNER  FISH,  Clerk. 


Miss  JENNIE  L.  TWITCHELL,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI  L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


Mrs.  SARAH  A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR  S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician  for  the  Institution. 

HENRY  HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD  FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD  ARTHUR  LANE,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD  RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC  DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 
Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA   A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  FRANCES  E.  CARLTON. 
Miss  VIOLA  L.  PARKS. 
Miss  CAROLYN  E.  DUNKLEE. 


Girls'  Section. 
Mrs.  M.  a.  KNOWLTON. 
Mrs.  CORA  L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  SOPHIA  C.  HOPKINS. 
Miss  FLORENCE  E.  STOWE. 


PRINTING  DEPARTMENT. 

DENNIS  A.  REARDON,  Manager.  I    Miss  ALICE  M.  HERRICK,  Printer. 

Mrs.  ELIZABETH  S.  REARDON.  |    Miss  MARY  L.  TULLY,  Printer. 

FRANK  C.  BRYAN,  Operator  of  Slereotypemaker. 


WORKSHOP  FOR  ADULTS. 

EUGENE  C.  HOWARD,  Manager  Emeritus. 
FRANK  C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  B.  G.  LINCOLN.  Clerk. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   AT   THE   LOWER  SCHOOL. 


EINDERGASTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Misa  Flora  L.  Fountain,  Assistant. 
Miss  EuPHEMiA  D.  Christie,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Ibma  a.  Perkins,  Assistant. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Assistant. 

Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 

Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 

Miss  Helen  M.  Hinolf,  Music  Teacher. 


Miss  Annib  L.  F.  Edwards,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 
Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 


PSIMABY  DEPARTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Angib  L.  Tarbell,  Teacher. 


Miss  Effib  C.  SAUNDERS,'^TeacAer. 
Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,«"Music  Teacher. 
Miss  SiGRiD  Sjolander,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Winifred  Wurtele,  Teacher. 
Misa  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'  VISITING  COMMITTEE  TO  THE  KINDEEQARTEN. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 


Mrs.  John  S.  Lawrence, 
Mrs.  Louis  Bacon,    . 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  Joseph  Warren, 
Mrs.  Wm.  a.  Lawrence, 
Mrs.  Wm.  R.  Livebmorb, 
Mrs.  William  James, 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 
Mrs.  Joseph  G.  Bradley, 
Misa  Annie  C.  Warren, 


>  January. 

>  February. 

>  March. 

y  April. 
May. 


Mrs.  Charles  B.  Perkins, 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker, 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Miss  Margaret  F.  Morse, 
Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,     . 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent, 


June. 

September. 

October. 

November. 

December. 


Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 

Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Honorary  Member. 

Mrs.  KiNGSMiLL  Marbs,  Honorary  Member. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  Honorary  Member. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Boston. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Amory,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Anthony,  S.  Reed,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Hon.  Francis  Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,  Mrs.   Francis   Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston, 
Appleton,   Mrs.   Francis  Henry, 

Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  Boston. 
Bacon,     Caspar     G.,     Jamaica 

Plain. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 
Baldwin,    S.    E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Barrows,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  New  York. 
Bartlett,  Miss  F,,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 


Beebe,  J.  Arthur,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 

York. 
Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 
Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence. 
Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 
Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 
Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 
Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 
Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 
Brooks,  Edward,  Hyde  Park. 
Brooks,  Rev.  G.  W.,  Dorchester. 
Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 
Brooks,  Mrs.  Peter  C,  Boston. 
Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 
Browne,  A.  Parker,  Boston. 
Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 
Bullard,  Mrs.  William  S,,  Boston. 
BuUock,  George  A.,  Worcester. 
Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  LoweU. 
Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 
Burr,  I.  T.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Boston. 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.,  Newton. 
Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 
Callender,  Walter,  Providence. 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 
Cary,  Miss  E.  F,,  Cambridge. 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 
Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 
Chaee,  Hon.  J.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  L 
Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chamberlin,  E.  D.,  Boston. 


Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 
Clark,  Miss  S.  W.,  Beverly. 
Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston. 
Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 
Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 
Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 
Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 
Cotting,  Charles  E,,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 
Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 
Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 
Cummings,  Mrs.  A.  L.,  Portland, 
Me. 

Cunniff,  Hon.  M.  M.,  Boston. 

Cunningham,    Mrs.    Henry    V., 
Grove  Hall. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Mary  S.,  Brookline. 

Gushing,  Livingston,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Draper,  Eben  S.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Endicott;  William  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 


Favdkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston, 
Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover. 
Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 
Ferris,  Miss  Mary  E.,  Brookline. 
Fields,  Mrs.  James  T.,  Boston. 
Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  Boston. 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 
Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
line. 
Foster,  Miss  C.  P.,  Cambridge. 
Foster,   Mrs.    E.   W.,   Hartford, 
Conn. 

Foster,  Francis  C,  Cambridge. 

Foster,   Mrs.   Francis    C,    Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,    Rev.    A.,    Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Goodwin,  Miss  A.  M.,  Cambridge. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 


Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B,,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  F.  Howe,  New  York. 

Hall,  Miss  Laura  E.,  Boston. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

HalloweU,  Col.  N.  P.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Hanscom,  Dr.  Sanford,  Somer- 
ville. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Aubumdale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  C.  P.,  Boston. 

Hersey,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

HiU,  Dr.  A.  S.,  SomerviUe. 

Hogg,  John,  Boston. 

HoUis,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  Lynn. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brook- 
line. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutehins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 


James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Bostoa. 

Jones,  Mrs.  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kent,  Mrs.  Helena  M,,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer- 
viUe. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Wm.  Appleton,  Boston. 

Lee,  Mrs.  George  C,  Boston. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence. 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 


Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 
Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G.,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 
Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Lyman,  Arthur  T.,  Boston. 
Lyman,  John  P.,  Boston. 
Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,   Standish, 

Me. 
Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  E.  F.,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 
Mason,  I.  B.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Matthews,  Mrs.  A.  B.,  Boston. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 
Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 
Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 
Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Minot,  WiUiam,  Boston. 
Mixter,  Miss  M.  C,  Boston. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,   Mrs.   Eustis   P.,   Saco, 

Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,    Miss    M.    F,,     Jamaica 

Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 
Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 
Noreross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 
Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 
Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 
Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 


Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 
Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Quimby,  Mrs.  A.  K.,  Boston. 
Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 
Reardon,  Dennis  A.,  Watertown. 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 
Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 
Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 
Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 
Richardson,  John,  Boston. 
Richardson,    Miss    M.    G.,    New 

York. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 
Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Newton. 
Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 
Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 
Rogers,    Miss    Flora    E.,    New 

York. 
Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 
Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 
Rowan,  Alfred  J.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 
Russell,  Mi-s.  W.  A.,  Mattapan. 
Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 
Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,  Brookline. 
Saltonstall,     Leverett,     Chestnut 

Hill. 
Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 
Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  Concord. 
Sehaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Pittsfield. 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 


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Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 
Shattuek,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 
Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 
Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 
Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 
Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 
Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 
Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 
Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 
Spencer,  Henry  F.,  Boston. 
Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 
Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 
Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 
Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 
Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 
Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 
Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 
Thayer,  Ezra  R.,  Boston. 
Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 
Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 
Tim,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 
Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 
Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 
Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 


Turner,  Miss  A.  W.,  Randolph. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Ware,  Miss  M.  L,,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Weymouth. 

Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Weymouth. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheeloek,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Wheelwright,  Mrs.  Andrew  C, 
Boston. 

Wheelwright,  John  W.,  Boston. 

White,  C.  J.,  Cambridge. 

White,  Mrs.  Charles  T.,  Boston. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Miss  Anne,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  South 
Framingham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thos.  L.,  Boston. 

Woleott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PKOCEEDINGS 

OF  THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watektown,  October  8,  1913. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are 
hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  1^.  P.  Hallowell. 

Treasurer.  —  William  Endicott,  Jr. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 


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Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  N.  P.  Hallowell,  James  A. 
Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  Richard  M.  Saltonstall,  and 
Albert  Tborndike. 

The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation:  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Mrs.  Francis 
Henry  Appleton,  Jr.,  Mr.  I.  T.  Burr,  Jr.,  Prof.  Mary 
Calkins,  Mrs.  Henry  V.  Cunningham,  Miss  Annie  E.  Fisher, 
Mr.  Frederick  A.  Gaskins,  Mr.  Roland  Gray,  Miss  Edith 
M.  Howes,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam  King,  Messrs.  Richard  S. 
Levering,  Ronald  T.  Lyman  and  William  Minot,  George 
Frederick  Robinson,  Alfred  J.  Rowan,  William  Eustis 
Russell,  Leverett  Saltonstall,  Walter  B.  Snow,  Eliphalet  T. 
Tifft,  George  S.  West  and  B.   Loring  Young. 

Voted,  That  with  the  call  for  the  next  annual  meeting  be  included 
a  statement  that  there  will  be  a  special  exhibition  of  the  pupils  after 
the  meeting. 


The  meeting  then  adjourned. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN", 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Pbbkins  Institution  and  MASSACHtrsETTS  School  for  the  Blind, 
Wateetown,  October  8,  1913. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  a:n-d  Gentlemen  :  —  This  year  lias  been  spe- 
cially marked  by  our  removal  to  the  ideal  new  plant 
at  Watertown.  It  has  naturally  been  a  trying  period, 
being  one  of  reconstruction  and  adjustment;  but  offi- 
cers, teachers,  helpers  and  pupils  have  all  done  their 
part  faithfully  and  loyally.  The  matrons  could  not 
be  ready  for  the  return  of  the  pupils  of  the  upper 
school  until  October  15,  after  which  several  days  were 
given  to  familiarizing  them  with  their  household  duties 
and  with  the  grounds  and  buildings,  embossed  maps 
having  been  prepared  as  aids.  Pupils  and  teachers 
settled  their  classrooms,  and  the  school  opened  a  class 
at  a  time  as  place  for  them  could  be  made  ready.  The 
piano  tuning  department  opened  the  first  day;  the 
music  and  most  of  the  school  and  gymnasium  classes 
within  a  week ;  the  boys '  manual  training  in  temporary 
rooms  after  some  delays,  for  the  contractors  still  kept 
possession  of  the  boys'  shop,  using  it  as  passageway 
to  the  unfinished  tower.  The  girls'  manual  training 
was  not  in  full  swing  until  Thanksgiving  time  and  the 


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boys'  until  New  Year's.  Because  workmen  made  un- 
usable the  region  of  the  assembly  rooms,  the  customary 
morning  exercises  were  not  begun  until  January  1.  But 
the  whole  school  was  in  operation  at  this  time ;  though 
workmen  did  not  quit  the  main  building  until  well  into 
February. 

The  adjustment  to  the  new  conditions  of  living  was 
soon  effected  in  the  case  of  the  girls,  but  in  that  of  the 
boys  it  took  time;  and  naturally  so,  for  the  contrib- 
utory housework  required  was  strange  both  to  them 
and  to  their  matrons.  Nevertheless,  they  took  hold  of 
their  duties  manfully  and  in  the  right  spirit.  It  should 
be  understood  that  the  pupils  do  not  devote  more  than 
an  hour  a  day  to  household  chores;  that  they  lose  no 
time  from  their  studies,  but  merely  have  filled  for  them 
some  of  the  free  time  which  many  do  not  always  use 
to  best  advantage.  The  officers  report  that  nearly  all 
those  pupils  who  gave  so  much  trouble  at  South  Boston 
that  their  discharge  had  been  considered,  —  nearly  all 
of  these  have  here  earned  their  right  to  remain;  that 
this  has  been  particularly  true  of  the  partially  sighted 
boys  who,  finding  themselves  specially  useful  under  the 
new  conditions,  have  put  their  energies  into  helpful 
rather  than  mischievous  activities. 

A  few  of  the  teachers  and  their  boys  sawed,  split 
and  piled  away  tree  wood  for  their  living-room  fire- 
places. Both  boys  and  girls  have  weeded  their  cottage 
greens  and  have  watered  and  mulched  the  new  shrub- 
bery there.  Some  have  had  from  their  own  planting 
pansies,  lettuce  and  radishes.  Many  have  had  window 
gardens  and  flowering  bulbs  and  especially  lilies  of  the 
valley.    Considering  the  fact  that  much  of  the  future 


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playground  and  lawn  was  unavailable  the  whole  term, 
all  these  little  occupations  and  interests  helped  won- 
derfully to  make  things  go.  For  a  while  the  winter's 
cold  provided  coasting  and  skating  within  the  grounds ; 
and  on  occasional  free  evenings  the  various  families 
played  whist  or  enjoyed  an  open  fire  in  the  living- 
rooms.  At  Christmas  one  family  had  its  tree,  another 
made  a  gift  of  andirons  or  a  fender  to  the  cottage,  an- 
other of  a  cast,  picture,  or  what  not.  First  the  boys, 
then  the  girls  held  monthly  dances  in  the  great  hall; 
both  carried  on  their  social  and  reading  societies ;  the 
boys  repeated  from  the  previous  year  Shakespeare's 
''  Twelfth  Night;  "  the  girls  carried  out  their  oldtime 
custom  of  a  May  Day  walk  before  breakfast.  The 
great  extent  of  the  buildings,  their  adaptation,  their 
exposure  to  all  the  sunshine  there  was,  necessarily 
quickened  wholesome  feelings  and  gave  to  the  thought- 
ful student  a  sense  of  opportunity  to  be  seized.  The 
teachers  report  that  in  spite  of  the  confusion  of  the 
fall  term  the  pupils  in  nearly  every  department  ac- 
complished by  the  close  of  the  year  in  June  a  normal 
amount  of  work. 

The  pupils  have  been  singing  as  a  mixed  choir  for 
the  past  five  years.  The  choir  has  steadily  grown  in 
efficiency;  for  it  was  able  to  learn  this  past  year 
twenty-four  anthems  for  the  morning  exercises  and  to 
review  several  secular  choruses  and  the  cantata  of 
''  Hiawatha's  Wedding  Feast  "  for  the  annual  concert. 
There  is  also  a  girls'  glee  club  of  twenty  singers,  which 
sang  three  times  last  winter  at  social  functions  in 
Watertown.  To  be  commended  also  is  the  pianoforte 
normal  department,  begun  four  years  ago.    Last  year 


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its  pupil  teachers  were  six  of  our  advanced  students, 
and  its  pupils  eighteen  "seeing"  children  —  begin- 
ners living  in  the  town. 

The  institution  continues  to  receive  and  use  free 
tickets  to  large  numbers  of  concerts  given  in  Boston 
and  Cambridge ;  but  by  means  of  the  income  from  the 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund,  recently  established,  the 
music  department  now  also  buys  tickets  for  such  of  its 
pupils  as  are  fitted  to  profit  from  additional  concerts. 
Last  season  these  were  the  oratorios  of  Elijah  and 
The  Creation,  and  concerts  by  the  Boston  Symphony 
Orchestra,  the  Cecilia  Society,  and  the  Flonzaley 
String  Quartet. 

The  study  of  harmony  has  usually  been  crowded  out 
of  the  course  provided  the  pupils  of  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution. For  an  advanced  music  student  not  to  study 
harmony  is  obviously  to  be  handicapped  in  both  the 
ready  acquisition  and  the  appreciation  of  music.  Last 
year  what  before  had  seemed  impossible  to  get  in  was 
after  Christmas  provided  as  an  elective  open  only  to 
students  with  the  approval  of  the  heads  of  the  depart- 
ments concerned:  harmony  may  thus  be  studied  in- 
stead of  geometry  and  be  accepted  in  lieu  of  it.  Three 
girls  have  already  taken  advantage  of  this  provision. 

At  the  close  of  the  year  twelve  pupils  were  gradu- 
ated with  high  school  diploma  and  two  were  given  cer- 
tificates for  proficiency  as  piano  tuners.  Several  of 
these  are  already  doing  well:  one  reports  that,  after 
serving  two  months  acceptably  as  home  teacher  in  Ver- 
mont, he  has  resigned  to  accept  a  call  as  instructor  of 
manual  training  and  the  industries  in  the  State  School 
for  the  Blind,  Janesville,  Wisconsin. 


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For  many  years  daily  housework  has  been  a  duty  of 
every  girl  pupil  of  this  school.  Four  years  ago  a  spe- 
cial instructor  in  the  subject  was  employed  and  has 
taught  the  subject  in  spite  of  unideal  conditions.  At 
Watertown  a  complete  little  cottage  for  the  study  and 
practice  of  domestic  economy  has  been  provided. 
There  the  instructor  lives  with  four  girls,  who  together 
carry  on  all  the  operations  of  a  little  family.  This 
year  twelve  different  girls  have  enjoyed  the  privileges 
of  this  model  cottage  and  considered  it  a  privilege  to 
have  the  experience  in  housekeeping.  The  cottage  has 
been  named  after  Miss  Gazella  Bennett,  the  teacher 
who  first  proposed  having  such  a  house  at  the  institu- 
tion. When  the  Alumnae  met  in  June  they  dedicated 
the  cottage  to  the  memory  of  their  former  teacher. 

There  are  now  in  the  school  library,  including  dupli- 
cates, 12,629  embossed  books  in  the  following  types :  — 
Braille  9,351;  Line  type  1,362;  New  York  point  1,040; 
Moon  type  876.  Their  total  circulation  for  the  year, 
both  inside  the  school  and  outside,  was  10,206.  In  the 
early  autumn  the  librarians  were  greatly  assisted  by 
the  older  boys  who  received  the  trays  of  books  as  they 
arrived,  carried  them  into  the  library  and  unpacked 
them,  afterwards  arranging  them  upon  the  shelves. 
The  library  of  books  in  common  print  now  has  a  room 
to  itself.  The  music  library,  both  in  embossed  and  in 
common  notation,  which  likewise  has  a  special  room, 
has  been  rearranged,  each  piece  being  numbered  to 
facilitate  its  circulation  both  inside  and  outside  the 
school. 

As  the  visitor  passes  through  the  front  lobby  of  the 


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main  or  Howe  building,  he  enters  the  museum  of 
teaching  objects,  collected  by  Mr.  Anagnos.  The 
architect  has  planned  an  ideal  arrangement  of  this 
splendid  collection  both  for  class  study  and  for  exhibi- 
tion. He  has  provided  in  the  gallery  of  this  great 
room  space  for  the  equally  ideal  historical  exhibition 
of  the  multifarious  appliances,  devised  to  facilitate  the 
education,  work  and  play  of  the  blind,  which  the  Di- 
rector has  been  collecting  for  the  past  six  years.  Most 
of  this  material  has  come  from  abroad,  especially  from 
Prof.  Alexander  Mell,  Director  of  the  Imperial  Insti- 
tution for  the  Blind  in  Vienna,  where  he  has  brought 
together  probably  the  most  complete  museum  of  the 
kind  in  existence.  Similar  museums  may  be  found  in 
Paris  and  Berlin  and  are  of  unique  value  to  the  student 
of  the  education  of  the  blind  as  well  as  to  their  present 
instructors. 

Doubtless  the  most  interesting  event  of  the  fall  term 
was  the  arrival  from  England  of  the  great  peal  of 
eight  fine  toned  bells  for  the  tower,  the  gift  of  Mrs. 
Andrew  C.  Wheelwright  in  memory  of  her  husband. 
Brought  into  the  museum  on  December  11,  they  rested 
there  several  days  before  being  hoisted  into  the  belfry. 
The  rare  opportunity  of  examination  was  seized  by 
every  one ;  even  the  children  of  the  kindergarten  came 
from  Jamaica  Plain  to  see  them.  The  tenor  bell 
weighs  2,200  pounds,  the  treble  700.  Each  bears  a 
name  and  an  inscription  selected  by  Mrs.  Wheelwright 
and  Mr.  Sturgis.  Being  embossed  in  Eoman  letters 
the  pupils  could  read  them  for  themselves  and  had 
much  satisfaction  in  doing  so.    They  are  as  follows :  — 


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Treble,  Angel,      "  May  God  bless  all,  whom  we  do  call." 
2nd,      Joy,  "  Break  forth  into  joy,  sing  together." 

3rd,       Blessing, "  O   ye   light    and   darkness   bless   ye   the 

Lord." 
4th,       Honour,  "  Sing  ye  to  the  Lord,  sing,  sing  forth  the 

honour  of  His  name." 
5th,       Glory,       "  Arise,  shine,  for  thy  light  is  come." 
6th,       Faith,      "  Send  out  Thy  light  and  Thy  truth ;  let 

them  lead  me." 
7th,       Hope,       "  Lift  up  your  hearts.     We  lift  them  up 

unto  the  Lord." 
Tenor,  Love,        "  Ring  in  the  love  of  truth,  ring  in  the 

common  love  of  good." 

The  bells  are  arranged  for  chiming  by  a  single  player, 
or  for  pealing  by  six  or  eight  people,  each  at  a  rope. 
When  chimed,  hammers  strike  the  stationary  bells; 
when  pealed,  the  bells  are  swung  through  a  complete 
revolution  and  back  again,  each  swing  of  a  bell  bring- 
ing it  in  violent  contact  with  its  tongue  or  clapper.  A 
peal  of  bells  is  a  set  tuned  to  each  other.  Ours  are  in 
the  pitch  of  E  and  are  in  the  natural  scale,  —  not  the 
tempered  scale  one  is  accustomed  to  hear  on  a  piano. 
The  number  of  possible  combinations  of  two  bells  is 
two;  of  four,  twenty-four;  of  six,  seven  hundred  and 
twenty;  and  so  on.  The  art  of  pealing  lies  in  the  abil- 
ity both  to  do  the  mechanical  part  of  the  ringing,  — 
no  easy  matter,  —  and  to  carry  out  a  prearranged 
series  of  changes.  This  pealing  is  almost  a  lost  art  in 
America;  but  of  late  there  has  come  something  of  a 
revival  of  it  in  and  about  Boston,  where  there  are  five 
or  six  towers  containing  bells  hung  for  pealing  and 
where  there  are  living  eight  or  ten  Englishmen  ex- 
tremely fond  of  the  practice.    A  friend  of  the  institu- 


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tion  and  of  Mrs.  Wheelwright,  Dr.  Arthur  H.  Nichols 
of  Boston,  who  is  both  an  expert  and  an  enthusiast  on 
the  subject,  has  arranged  for  and  carried  out  several 
pealings  of  our  bells. 

Dr.  Charles  Frederick  Fraser,  a  former  Perkins 
pupil,  who  has  been  forty  years  superintendent  of  the 
Halifax  School  for  the  Blind,  was  called  before  the  bar 
of  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislature  and  presented  with  a 
resolution  of  thanks  for  his  valuable  services  to  the 
blind.  This  is  one  of  the  highest  honors  in  the  gift  of 
the  Province. 

It  is  a  pleasure  to  mention  the  election  of  Henry 
Van  Vliet  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  a  totally  blind  pupil 
of  this  school  for  eight  years,  as  representative  at 
the  state  legislature  of  New  Hampshire  for  1912  and 
1913.  In  addition  to  his  activity  in  the  political  field, 
Mr.  Van  Vliet  has  undertaken  the  home-teaching  of 
adults  and  general  field  work  in  behalf  of  the  blind  of 
his  state,  and  his  efforts  are  already  bearing  fruit. 

Urged  by  the  Mass.  Commission  for  the  Blind,  of 
which  our  Director  is  a  member,  the  Boston  School 
Committee  opened  last  spring  in  that  part  of  the  city 
known  as  Eoxbury  a  special  class  for  children  having 
defective  eyesight.  Miss  Helen  L.  Smith,  a  former 
Perkins  teacher,  was  chosen  as  one  well  qualified  to 
become  its  instructor.  In  preparation  she  spent  two 
months  at  Watertown  making  special  appliances;  for 
her  appeal  was  to  be  to  the  eyes  rather  than  the  fingers 
of  her  pupils,  as  is  done  in  the  centers  for  similarly 
handicapped  children  in  the  London  schools.  She  be- 
gan actual  teaching  in  April,  1913,  with  five  pupils, 
and  has  not  had  more  than  six  at  any  one  time.    The 


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class  has  opened  again  this  fall,  and  will  doubtless 
be  continued,  for  there  is  need  of  this  kind  of  teach- 
ing in  all  large  centers  of  population.  The  Perkins 
Institution  naturally  takes  a  contributory  interest 
in  it. 

The  Howe  Memorial  Press,  now  housed  in  its  new 
quarters  in  the  power  plant  building,  has  necessarily 
spent  a  good  part  of  the  year  getting  settled.  Never- 
theless, its  manager,  Mr.  Eeardon,  reports  having 
issued  editions  of  fifteen  new  books,  second  editions  of 
four  others,  and  having  printed  a  large  variety  of 
sheet  music.  Its  sale  of  books  and  special  appliances 
has  been  unusually  large. 

The  Perkins  workshop  for  adults  remains  at  South 
Boston  where  it  continues  to  serve  its  many  customers 
and  to  furnish  employment  to  its  usual  number  of 
blind  men  and  women.  Mr.  Bryan,  its  manager,  has 
steadily  improved  his  shop  facilities :  he  reports  a  busy 
and  successful  year. 

The  five  state  teachers  to  the  adult  blind  in  their 
homes  again  report  having  travelled  collectively  in 
and  about  Massachusetts  several  thousand  miles  within 
the  year,  and  having  given  1,964  lessons.  The  number 
of  new  cases  visited  is  ninety-three,  eighteen  of  whom 
declined  instruction.  From  this  it  appears  that,  though 
the  ranks  of  the  adult  blind  are  constantly  being  added 
to,  by  no  means  all  of  them  need  special  consolation 
and  assistance. 

The  cost  of  our  new  buildings  and  removal  has  been 
very  large,  greatly  diminishing  funds  which  are  in- 
vested for  current  expenses.  It  therefore  becomes 
necessary  to  make  up  for  this  loss  of  income  by  a 


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strong  appeal  to  the  public  for  larger  contributions. 
Its  many  friends  are  again  urged  to  contribute  not 
only  in  the  same  helpful  ways  as  in  the  past  but  with 
even  greater  liberality,  both  by  remembering  the  insti- 
tution in  their  wills  and  by  continuing  to  make  annual 
contributions. 

Louis  Yott,  our  deaf -blind  pupil,  was  last  fall  trans- 
ferred to  the  upper  school.  His  teacher  reports  a  year 
of  happy  progress  with  the  little  fellow  among  the 
older  boys  with  whom  he  has  chummed.  Tom 
Stringer's  year  was  a  less  pleasant  one.  The  indica- 
tions of  restlessness  previously  reported  have  grown 
into  realities.  The  new  environment  soon  palled  upon 
him,  and  in  spite  of  extraordinary  care  and  sympathy 
from  his  friends  both  at  the  school  and  outside  of  it 
he  became  more  and  more  difficult  to  manage.  His 
case  has  been  diagnosed  as  indicating  dementia  praecox. 
His  friends  have  arranged  to  keep  him  in  a  private 
family  for  an  experimental  period  in  the  care  of  a  spe- 
cially qualified  attendant.  The  net  income  of  the  per- 
manent fund  which  ^the  institution  has  been  raising  and 
investing  for  Tom  will  be  used  to  meet  the  necessary 
expenses  so  far  as  possible ;  what  more  may  be  needed 
will  surely  be  provided  by  those  who  retain  an  interest 
in  this  unfortunate  young  man. 

The  number  of  blind  persons  connected  with  the 
Perkins  Institution  on  the  first  of  October,  1913,  was 
291,  including  67  boys  and  70  girls  in  the  upper  school, 
63  boys  and  58  girls  in  the  lower  school,  13  teachers 
and  officers,  and  20  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  Fifty-eight  have  been  admitted  and  sixty-six 
discharged  during  the  year. 


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Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1912-1913:  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum,  8; 
Phlyctenular  keratitis,  1;  Uveitis,  with  phthisis  bulbi, 
1;  Neuritis,  1;  Irido-cyclitis,  1;  Injuries,  with  sympa- 
thetic ophthalmia,  3;  Atrophy  of  the  optic  nerve,  14; 
Cataracts,  1;  Traumatic  cataracts,  1;  Congenital 
cataracts,  6;  Congenital  cataract  and  cyclitis,  1; 
Congenital  amblyopia,  5;  Congenital  glaucoma,  1; 
Congenital  syphilis,  1;  Albinism,  1;  Sympathetic 
ophthalmia,  3;  Purulent  ophthalmia,  1;  Purulent  and 
sympathetic  ophthalmia,  1;  Purulent  conjunctivitis,  1; 
Corneal  opacities,  1;  Dislocation  of  lenses,  1;  Mal- 
formation, 1;  Trachoma,  1. 

The  few  cases  of  contagious  and  infectious  illnesses 
among  the  children  of  the  kindergarten  were  all  light 
and  yielded  readily  to  treatment.  A  serious  accident 
befell  one  of  the  primary  girls  who,  it  is  supposed  in 
sleep-walking,  fell  from  an  upper  story  window  and 
sustained  a  fracture  of  the  spine.  After  treatment  at 
the  City  Hospital  she  has  been  taken  to  her  home  where 
she  is  being  tenderly  cared  for.  There  have  been  four 
deaths  among  the  pupils  of  both  departments :  Wilfred 
Corrigan,  of  appendicitis  at  the  Faulkner  Hospital; 
John  Leonazio,  of  paralysis  at  a  State  Hospital ;  Celia 
C.  Gallagher,  of  paralysis  at  her  home ;  and  Joseph  L. 
Rodrigo,  while  bathing  in  the  institution  swimming 
pool.  The  last-named  had  been  a  pupil  at  the  school 
fifteen  years,  had  developed  an  excellent  tenor  voice 
and  was  a  general  favorite. 

The  attending  physician  to  the  institution,  Dr.  Julian 
A.  Mead,  died  early  in  the  year.  He  was  a  splendid, 
helpful,  cheery  man  and,  though  connected  with  the 


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institution  but  a  few  months,  was  greatly  respected  at 
the  school.  His  successor  is  Dr.  Oscar  S.  Greeley  of 
Watertown,  who  will  serve  both  the  upper  and  the 
lower  schools,  for  both  are  now  at  Watertown. 

Acknowledgment  should  be  made  of  the  services  of 
Dr.  Henry  W.  Broughton  of  Jamaica  Plain,  attending 
physician  to  the  Kindergarten  for  the  Blind  from  its 
beginnings  twenty-six  years  ago.  His  interest  in  that 
little  institution  was  so  great  that  for  several  years 
when  it  was  struggling  for  existence  he  served  without 
pay. 

We  desire  also  to  record  our  gratitude  to  Dr.  Francis 
I.  Proctor,  ophthalmologist,  who  for  many  years  has 
given  much  time  and  attention  to  our  school,  in  the 
examination  of  pupils'  eyes  and  recommendations  for 
their  benefit,  and  whose  expert  advice  is  always  at  our 
command,  even  though  he  has  withdrawn  from  active 
service  at  this  institution. 

In  conclusion  we  beg  to  report  a  satisfactory  year 
both  at  Jamaica  Plain  and  at  Watertown.  On  Novem- 
ber 7,  1912,  the  kindergarten  celebrated  its  quarter 
century  of  existence,  years  of  blessing  to  over  five  hun- 
dred blind  children.  In  the  summer  its  movable  equip- 
ment was  transferred  to  the  new  buildings,  and  there 
the  lower  school  has  opened  this  fall  in  order  and  on 
time.  A  history  of  the  Kindergarten  will  appear  in 
another  place.  If  the  past  year  is  an  indication  of  the 
freedom  from  illnesses  the  institution  is  to  enjoy  at 
Watertown  it  will  be  a  matter  of  congratulation.  The 
situation  of  the  new  buildings  is  imdoubtedly  a  good 
one,  and  their  arrangement  for  maximum  exposure  to 
sunshine,  health  bringing.     The  influence  of  uniform 


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heating,  plenty  of  natural  ventilation,  of  morning 
shower  bathing,  of  freedom  from  much  stair  climbing 
and  of  the  regular  life  are  conditions  that  should  make 
for  increased  happiness  and  efficiency. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 
Francis  Bartlett;  Mrs.  Louisa,  widow  of  Chris- 
topher C.  Chadwick ;  Sir  James  Coates  ;  John  Temple- 
man  Coolidge;  Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft;  Henry 
Endicott;  Miss  Caroline  L.  Fairbanks;  Frank  E. 
HoDGKiNS;  Mrs.  Virginia  A.,  widow  of  Manly  Howe; 
Dr.  Julian  A.  Mead  ;  Henry  Eobinson  ;  Mrs.  Eleonora 
Kandolph,  wife  of  Frederick  R.  Sears ;  Mrs.  Anna  S., 
widow  of  Amos  P.  Tapley. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE  GH^MAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
N.  P.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD  M.  SALTONSTALL, 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Trustees. 


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THE    KINDERGARTEN:    VIEW   ACROSS   ANAGNOS   COURT. 


EEPOET  OF  THE  DIKECTOE. 


lo  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  This  fall  the  kinder- 
garten department  of  the  Perkins  Institution  opened 
school  in  its  new  buildings  at  Watertown.  Therefore, 
it  seems  timely  to  make  the  subject  of  this  report  the 
rather  wonderful  story  of  the  kindergarten's  begin- 
nings and  development  at  Jamaica  Plain.  Mr.  Frank 
Sanborn,  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Howe  Memorial 
Club  this  year,  said  aptly  that  while  Dr.  Howe  was 
an  originator,  a  first  great  cause,  Mr.  Anagnos  in  a 
remarkable  degree  was  able  to  get  others  to  work  with 
him.  This  is  especially  exemplified  in  his  establish- 
ment of  the  kindergarten  for  the  blind.  In  preparing 
the  following  brief  account  I  have  been  so  fortunate 
as  to  consult  and  talk  with  nearly  all  of  the  principal 
teachers  and  officers  who  were  associated  with  Mr. 
Anagnos  from  the  beginnings  of  the  kindergarten  and 
who  are  hereinafter  mentioned.  Two  of  the  early 
matrons,  Mrs.  Hill,  originally  with  the  Garland  and 
Weston  Kindergarten  Training  School,  and  Miss  Vose, 
are  still  with  us,  while  Miss  Loring,  Miss  Stratton, 
Miss  Lane  and  Miss  Humbert  have  been  here  many 
years.     These  officers  have  continued  Mr.  Anagnos 's 


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ideals  for  the  young  children  of  their  care  and  have 
kept  alive  his  devotion  to  them. 

The  limits  of  age  for  the  admission  of  pupils  into 
the  Perkins  Institution  have  been  for  a  long  time 
*  *  over  nine  and  under  nineteen. ' '  Dr.  Howe  did  occa- 
sionally receive  a  child  under  nine  years,  but  as  a  rule 
it  was  felt  that  none  should  be  taken  from  its  parents 
younger  than  this,  both  because  of  the  unnaturalness 
of  so  doing  and  because,  the  term  of  schooling  being 
short  anyway,  the  most  fruitful  years  should  be  chosen. 
But  there  were  frequent  appeals  to  receive  a  child 
under  nine,  sometimes  even  a  baby  in  arms;  and  the 
special  desirability  of  doing  so  was  often  so  urgent 
that  having  to  refuse  was  a  severe  drain  on  the  sym- 
pathies of  the  director.  Mr.  Anagnos  had  a  heart  full 
of  love  for  little  children  and  having  none  of  his  own 
and  recalling  the  struggles  of  his  childhood  in  Greece, 
he  came  more  and  more  to  yearn  for  the  means  of 
taking  in  those  little  blind  children  who  he  knew  were 
groping  in  neglect  at  home.  The  best  way  to  do  this 
came  about  naturally.  The  story  of  it  is  the  story  of 
the  beginnings  of  our  kindergarten. 

In  the  early  days  of  Mr.  Anagnos 's  directorate  the 
philosophy  of  Froebel  was  gaining  recognition,  espe- 
cially in  Boston,  where  Mrs.  Quincy  A.  Shaw  was 
carrying  on  kindergartens  in  the  public  schools.  When 
in  1889  the  city  finally  took  them  over  she  was  sup- 
porting thirty  of  them,  having  an  attendance  of  1,074 
children.  It  was  natural  that  the  Perkins  Institution, 
ever  alert  in  educational  matters,  should  catch  the 
spirit  of  this  new  movement.     Besides,  Mr.  Anagnos 


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was  acquainted  with  Miss  Elizabeth  Peabody,  the 
apostle  of  kindergartens  in  America.  In  fact,  one  of 
Mrs.  Shaw's  kindergartners,  Mrs.  Emily  F.  Bethmann, 
who  lived  and  taught  in  South  Boston  some  time  in  the 
late  70 's,  introduced  kindergarten  methods  to  Miss 
Gazella  Bennett,  the  alert  principal  teacher  of  our 
girls'  department,  and  helped  her  make  use  of  them 
with  those  of  her  pupils  who  were  clumsy  and  slow 
from  lack  of  early  training  of  any  kind.  The  annual 
report  for  1878  mentions  the  purchase  of  a  set  of 
kindergarten  gifts  and  occupations. 

About  this  time  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson,  who  after- 
wards edited  the  Kindergarten  Magazine  and  wrote 
and  published  the  Finger  Plays,  the  Child's  World, 
and  other  literature  for  children,  attended  Perkins  as 
a  pupil  and  later  the  normal  course  at  the  Misses  Gar- 
land and  Weston's  kindergarten  in  Boston.  Return- 
ing to  Perkins  each  day,  as  she  did  for  two  years,  she 
passed  on  to  Miss  Bennett  and  the  children  what  she 
had  learned.  In  fact,  she  helped  her  conduct  the 
classes,  —  in  one  of  which,  by  the  way,  was  Annie 
Sullivan,  afterwards  teacher  of  Helen  Keller.  It  was 
then  found  that  the  regular  kindergarten  materials 
needed  almost  no  changes  for  adaptation  to  the  blind. 
The  little  experiment  not  only  promised  but  resulted 
well,  and  a  similar  class  was  formed  in  the  boys'  de- 
partment. Both  classes  were  conducted  until  the 
starting  of  the  real  kindergarten  at  Jamaica  Plain. 
The  first  graduate  kindergartner  engaged  by  Mr. 
Anagnos,  Miss  Fanny  L.  Johnson,  spent  a  part  of  the 
school  year  1886-7  at  the  Perkins  Institution,  both 


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teaching  and  observing  the  blind  and  learning  their 
ways,  and  thus  equipped  became  the  kindergartner  of 
the  first  children  received  at  Jamaica  Plain.^ 

One  of  the  things  to  which  Mr.  Anagnos  earliest  ap- 
plied himself  as  director  was  the  raising  of  the  Howe 
Memorial  Fund  for  the  embossing  and  distribution  of 
books  for  the  blind.  He  had  originally  appealed  for 
$50,000  but,  on  perceiving  how  readily  he  got  money 
for  this  cause,  he  continued  to  solicit  until  he  had 
raised  $100,000.  What  he  learned  in  the  experience 
was  this :  first,  that  blindness  can  be  made  to  open  the 
pockets  of  people  as  little  else  can;  and  second,  that 
he  himself  possessed  the  secret  of  successfully  present- 
ing his  cause. 

One  evening,  in  the  summer  of  1881,  when  he  per- 
ceived the  completion  of  the  Howe  Memorial  Fund  to 
be  near,  he  suddenly  leaped  to  his  feet  and  said  to  Mrs. 
Anagnos:  ''  I'll  do  it!  "  ''Do  what?  "  she  asked. 
''  I'll  have  a  school  for  little  blind  children,"  he  said 
with  emphasis.  And  Mr.  Dennis  Eeardon,  who  tells 
the  story,  has  said  that  the  resolution  then  formed 
never  lagged  but  gained  in  strength  with  the  years  of 
hard  work  that  ensued. 

At  the  annual  commencement  exercises,  which  were 
held  the  following  June  in  Tremont  Temple  and  which 
celebrated  also  the  50th  year  of  the  Perkins  Institu- 
tion, Mr.  Anagnos,  announcing  the  completion  of  the 

I  Meanwhile  the  Kentucky  Institution  for  the  Blind  had  bought  kindergarten  material  in 
1877,  apparently  the  earliest  of  any,  and  the  Ohio  Institution  had  chronicled  the  starting  of  a 
kindergarten  class  in  1878,  and  the  New  York  in  1882.  In  1881  William  Martin,  manager  of  the 
institution  at  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  had  so  far  looked  into  the  subject  as  to  publish  a  pamphlet 
on  "  The  Adaptation  of  Froebel's  Kindergarten  System  for  the  Blind."  And  in  1882  Sir  Francis 
(then  Dr.)  Campbell  had  opened  at  the  Royal  Normal  College  for  the  Blind,  London,  in  two 
hired  houses,  kindergartens  and  primary  classes  for  his  little  pupils.  So  far  as  known  these 
were  the  first  distinct  kindergarten  schools  for  blind  children. 

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Howe  Memorial  Fund,  told  the  great  audience  of  his 
purpose  to  launch  a  new  appeal,  one  of  still  more 
urgency,  —  viz.,  one  for  the  establishment  of  a  kinder- 
garten for  little  blind  children. 

His  proposal  to  follow  a  second  appeal  so  hard  upon 
the  feet  of  the  first  was  not  made  without  opposition 
from  some  of  his  board  of  trustees,  particularly  its 
president.  But  at  least  four  members  were  heartily 
with  him,  and  with  their  help  he  went  ahead.  Like 
Peter  the  Hermit  he  was  so  fired  with  the  justice  of  his 
cause  that  he  very  soon  communicated  his  fervor  to 
the  others. 

And  he  went  ahead,  writing  most  cogent  appeals  and 
scattering  them  for  the  next  twenty-three  years  with 
reiterated  emphasis  in  all  his  future  reports  and  upon 
all  occasions.  One  of  these  appeals  in  embossed  type 
appeared  from  time  to  time  until  78,000  had  been 
printed  and  the  plate  worn  out.  The  argument  was 
as  follows :  —  there  are  numberless  little  blind  children 
in  their  homes  vegetating  in  poverty  and  neglect, 
literally  starving  for  the  sunshine  of  care  and  training. 
Many  are  sinking  into  apathy  and  feeblemindedness 
and  will  later  become  incapable  of  education.  We  can- 
not receive  them  at  South  Boston  now  because  our 
by-laws  forbid  and  because,  even  though  we  altered 
those  by-laws,  we  have  no  room  for  them;  moreover, 
these  little  ones  should  not  be  placed  in  an  atmosphere 
made  by  older  and  less  innocent  pupils.  We  need  a 
special  home  for  the  little  blind  children.  They  are 
holding  out  their  hands  to  you.  Will  you  not  help 
them? 


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The  first  money  contribution  came  from  the  girls 
of  his  own  school  and  to  them  he  addressed  a  beautiful 
letter  in  his  own  handwriting.  And  thereafter,  of  the 
many  thousand  of  acknowledgments  that  went  out  to 
donors,  each  and  every  one  was  an  autograph  letter. 
Think  of  the  hours  of  labor  given  by  him  to  their  com- 
position and  writing!  For  they  were  not  notes  but 
real  letters,  and  as  long  and  as  carefully  done  in  an- 
swer to  small  donations  as  to  large  ones.  Being 
written  in  copying  ink,  impressions  of  them  were  kept, 
and  after  eighteen  pages  of  these  had  been  so  dupli- 
cated in  with  other  official  correspondence,  he  made 
manuscript  copies  of  them  all,  in  order  to  start  a  book 
solely  for  kindergarten  letters  and  thus  have  the  series 
complete.  This  series  comprises  51/2  standard  size 
copying  books. 

Mr.  Anagnos  spared  himself  no  labor  or  pains  that 
seemed  likely  to  forward  the  great  cause  he  had  ap- 
plied himself  to.  He  writes  in  1882:  ''  My  efforts  will 
now  be  concentrated  on  a  kindergarten :  I  do  not  allow 
myself  to  doubt  even  for  a  moment  its  accomplish- 
ment; "  and  in  1883:  "  I  feel  the  sting  of  the  neglect 
of  suffering  humanity  piercing  my  heart,"  and  ''  I 
have  gladly  and  determinedly  decided  to  accept 
Froebel's  grand  call  to  live  for  little  children."  That 
he  did  so  for  the  rest  of  his  life  no  one  who  then  re- 
members him  doubts.  Here  is  another  of  his  state- 
ments: '^  Success  is  the  crown  of  earnest  determina- 
tion, constant  endeavor,  and  assiduous  industry.  .  .  . 
*  Forward  '  must  continue  to  be  the  watchword  on  the 
line  of  our  forces." 


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One  of  the  first  to  be  called  on  to  help  was  Laura 
Bridgman.    Here  is  her  letter : 

So.  Boston,  Jan.  30,  1884. 

I  appeal  to  the  good  people  of  Boston  in  behalf  of  the  blind, 
and  beg  them  most  earnestly  to  lend  a  helping  hand  toward  the 
foundation  and  endowment  of  a  separate  kindergarten  for  little 
sightless  children.  They  live  now  in  darkness  and  gloom.  Let 
there  be  light  and  joy  for  them  soon. 

Laura  D.  Bridgman. 

Copies  of  this  were  sent  with  personal  notes  by  Mr. 
Anagnos  to  the  local  and  other  papers,  which  not  only 
published  Laura's  appeal  but  added  the  sympathetic 
endorsement  which  such  a  letter  from  such  a  person 
would  naturally  awaken.  Responses  came  from  people 
of  small  means  and  from  children,  especially  children 
of  kindergartens,  schools  and  Sunday  schools.  A  class 
in  Chicago  sent  $12.50.  A  lame  boy  in  Connecticut 
sent  fifty  cents.  A  little  blind  girl  sent  her  own 
Christmas  presents.  A  poor  lad  contributed  his  fa- 
vorite top.  Some  school  girls  denied  themselves  candy 
for  a  year,  sending  in  the  spending  money  thus  saved. 
A  local  Soldiers'  Post  contributed  $50,  and  a  type 
foundry  $30.35,  and  so  on.  The  list  of  small  contrib- 
utors soon  grew  long. 

Mr.  Anagnos  next  secured  a  well-written  descriptive 
article  in  Wide  Awake  and  two  appeals  in  Harper's 
Monthly,  the  latter  written  by  George  William  Curtis. 
"Within  twenty  years  53  articles  on  the  Kindergarten 
appeared  in  magazines,  and  no  end  of  notices  and 


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articles  in  the  newspapers.  These  latter  were  copied 
and  published  far  and  wide.  The  Perkins  Institution 
has  seven  great  scrapbooks  full  of  them. 

Miss  Louisa  Alcott  wrote  a  story  for  the  kinder- 
garten, which  brought  in  $225.  Mrs.  Francis  Brooks 
translated  Heidi  into  English  for  it,  and  that  brought 
in  over  $800.  Doll  shows  and  many  fairs  were  held, 
one  as  far  away  as  Eau  Claire,  Wis.  On  Washington's 
Birthday,  1884,  the  girls'  department  of  the  Perkins 
Institution  held  a  fair,  to  which  both  they  and  a  multi- 
tude of  friends  contributed  articles  for  sale,  and  came 
and  bought  them.  The  eagerness  of  the  pupils  to 
participate  in  this  is  shown  by  the  following  incident : 
—  A  blind  girl  who  spent  her  vacations  on  a  town 
farm  solicited  rags  in  the  summer  of  1883  and  braided 
them  into  a  rug  for  the  fair;  she  also  scrubbed  floors 
for  the  neighbors  and  with  the  money  so  earned, 
bought  articles  to  be  sold  at  it.  The  proceeds  of  the 
fair  were  $2,076.45.  This  event  '^  brought  the  enter- 
prise to  the  direct  notice  of  the  public  and  induced 
many  benevolent  and  wealthy  persons  to  espouse  the 
cause  of  the  blind."  In  April,  1884,  the  boys  of 
Perkins  Institution  gave  the  play  of  William  Tell  for 
the  benefit  of  the  kindergarten. 

Prominent  people  soon  opened  their  houses  for  en- 
tertainments and  readings.  At  one  of  these  Thomas 
Wentworth  Higginson,  Christopher  P.  Cranch  and 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  read  from  their  writings.  At 
another  Edward  Everett  Hale  read,  and  prominent 
musicians  played.  The  tickets  were  $2,  and  their 
sale  netted  $500.    Dr.  0.  W.  Holmes  read  at  a  second 


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assemblage  together  with  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Mar- 
garet Deland,  and  Louise  Imogen  Guiney.  William 
Dean  Howells  gave  a  reading.  Eichard  Mansfield  gave 
a  special  performance  of  Beau  Brummell.  On  one 
occasion  Dr.  Holmes  and  James  Eussell  Lowell  filled 
the  evening  with  readings  and  recitations  from  their 
poems. 

The  annual  exercises  of  the  Perkins  Institution  were 
then  always  held  early  in  June  either  in  Tremont 
Temple  or  the  Boston  Theatre.  Tickets  were  distrib- 
uted in  such  a  manner  as  to  attract  large  houses  of 
the  best  people.  Primary  children  trained  according 
to  Froebel's  methods  at  South  Boston  were  made  a 
special  feature,  their  exhibition  being  accompanied  by 
a  stirring  appeal  in  behalf  of  the  poor  little  waifs 
vegetating  at  home  because  there  was  no  school  for 
them.  Sometimes  Mr.  Anagnos  made  it,  sometimes 
another  good  speaker.  Even  the  backs  of  the  pro- 
grams bore  in  print  an  appeal  calculated  to  go  to  the 
hearts  of  the  people,  a  custom  which  was  continued  to 
the  year  1904.  It  was  noticeable  that  after  the  part 
of  the  program  devoted  to  the  kindergarten  and  pri- 
mary children  the  audience  largely  melted  away. 

In  this  manner  and  through  reiterated  appeals  and 
explanations  in  the  annual  reports  of  the  institution 
and  in  other  ways,  the  snowball  of  approval  and  sup- 
port grew  ever  greater  and  greater  until,  in  1885,  it 
was  announced  that  over  six  acres  of  land  in  Jamaica 
Plain,  costing  $30,000,  had  been  bought,  partly  with 
money  borrowed  from  the  Perkins  Institution;  but  it 
was  emphasized  that  there  was  no  money  for  a  build- 


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ing.  However,  this  came  very  quickly,  for  wealthy 
friends  had  begun  to  give  thousands  of  dollars;  and 
so  plans  for  a  house  for  thirty-two  children  were 
drawn  by  Mr.  Dennis  Eeardon  of  the  Perkins  Institu- 
tion, and  the  work  of  construction  was  begun  that  year. 
This  number,  which  was  twice  that  of  the  older  girls 
in  their  family  groups  at  South  Boston,  was  chosen 
as  about  right  for  a  school  family  of  little  children  to 
be  cared  for  by  a  matron,  her  assistant,  two  kinder- 
gartners  and  four  servants.  The  building  was  a  good- 
looking,  substantial  one  of  brick,  four  stories  high,  the 
first,  second  and  third  having  rooms  on  each  side  of 
a  central  hallway,  the  whole  fourth  story  being  an  attic 
playroom.  The  structure  was  planned  to  harbor  all 
the  indoor  activities  of  the  kindergarten,  the  great 
effort  being  to  make  it  as  homelike  as  possible.  For 
the  sake  of  companionship  and  the  cultivation  of  un- 
selfishness the  children  were  to  sleep  two  in  a  room, 
the  girls  on  the  second  floor,  where  the  matron  and  a 
teacher  and  a  servant  had  their  rooms;  the  boys  on 
the  third  floor,  where  the  assistant  matron  and  others 
slept.  A  single  dining  room  was  to  serve  all,  and  there 
all  were  to  be  at  table  together  just  as  parents  and 
children  are.    This  building  cost  $33,000. 

The  dedicatory  exercises  took  place  April  19,  1887. 
**  There  was  a  pressing  demand  for  admission  cards. 
.  .  .  Never  before  have  so  many  of  our  best  citizens 
manifested  such  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
blind."  Among  the  speakers  were  the  Rev.  Phillips 
Brooks  and  the  Hon.  John  W.  Dickinson,  Secretary  of 
the  State  Board  of  Education.    Mrs.  Julia  Ward  Howe 


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read  a  poem.  The  stirring  appeals  then  made  brought 
in  enough  money  to  pay  off  the  initial  indebtedness 
of  $11,000  for  building  equipment  but  not  quite  enough 
to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  the  first  year. 

On  the  second  day  of  May,  1887,  the  little  school 
opened  with  the  ten  most  needy  children  on  the  wait- 
ing list,  which  was  all  that  could  then  be  afforded  with 
the  money  in  hand.  Mr.  Anagnos  wrote  in  his  first 
annual  report  of  this  opening:  ''  Thus  the  infant 
school  was  fairly  launched  on  its  career  of  usefulness, 
and  the  beginning  of  its  active  operations  marks  the 
birth  of  a  new  era  in  the  education  of  the  blind." 

At  the  commencement  exercises  of  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution, held  the  following  June  in  Tremont  Temple, 
the  ten  little  children  from  the  kindergarten,  who  had 
been  but  one  month  at  school,  modelled  in  clay  before 
the  great  audience,  and  at  the  logical  moment  fervent 
appeals  were  made  to  the  hearts  and  pockets  of  all. 
The  secular  and  religious  press  published  glowing  ac- 
counts of  the  exercises  and  of  the  speeches.  An  en- 
dowment fund  of  $100,000  had  been  asked  for :  it  was 
all  in  hand  at  the  close  of  the  next  two  years. 

The  kindergarten  was  incorporated  March  30,  1887, 
as  a  department  of  the  Perkins  Institution.  It  was  to 
have  the  same  trustees  and  director,  but  its  funds  were 
to  be  kept  separate,  the  form  of  bequest  reading: 
*  *  I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  corporation  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the 
Blind,  Boston,  Mass.,  for  the  sole  use  and  benefit  of 
the  Kindergarten  for  the  Blind,  the  sum  of 
dollars."    Mr.  Anagnos 's  plan  was  to  safeguard  the 


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little  institution's  future  from  any  possible  outside  in- 
terference or  control.  No  Massachusetts  state  appro- 
priations for  the  blind  were  to  go  to  the  kindergarten, 
nor  have  they  ever  gone  there.  Though  other  states 
have  paid  in  tuition  fees  for  their  pupils,  the  Massa- 
chusetts pupils  have  ever  been  received  free.  This  is 
just,  for  most  of  the  funds  came  from  Massachusetts 
people. 

In  July,  1887,  the  trustees  voted  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee on  the  kindergarten,  consisting  of  twelve  ladies. 
A  very  strong  and  influential  committee  resulted,  and 
this  committee  became  at  once  of  tremendous  assist- 
ance to  the  director  and  has  continued  so.  They  soon 
chose  from  their  number  a  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Com- 
mittee on  the  kindergarten,  and  afterwards  branches 
in  Cambridge,  Worcester,  Dorchester,  Lynn  and  Mil- 
ton. It  became  their  religious  duty  to  keep  the  kinder- 
garten needs  ever  before  society.  In  1910,  when  their 
treasurer.  Miss  Sarah  E.  Lane,  resigned,  she  had  taken 
in  in  small  sums  nearly  $105,000. 

The  Perkins  Institution  annual  reports  included  the 
annual  report  of  the  kindergarten,  which  was  also 
issued  as  a  separate.  The  edition  of  the  former  was 
2,000 ;  of  the  latter,  4,000.  Comparatively  few  were  sent 
out  by  mail,  most  of  them  being  delivered  by  the  insti- 
tution wagon  to  destinations  in  and  about  Boston.  Mr. 
Anagnos  would  favor  Back  Bay  one  year,  Brookline 
another,  and  so  on.  All  these  reports  contained  care- 
fully written  descriptions  of  the  work  and  purposes 
of  the  schools  and  of  the  pupils,  followed  by  eloquent 
appeals  for  assistance;  and  they  contained  complete 


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financial  statements  and  long  lists  of  the  contributors 
with  the  amounts  of  their  contributions. 

A  deaf  and  blind  child,  Edith  Thomas,  joined  the 
kindergarten  in  the  fall  of  1887.  The  account  of  her 
in  the  second  annual  report  excited  great  interest.  At 
this  time  too,  the  astonishing  achievements  of  Helen 
Keller  began  to  be  spread  abroad.  From  the  moment 
of  her  first  visit  to  the  Perkins  Institution  the  demand 
for  accounts  of  her  was  strong  and  persistent.  Thou- 
sands read  with  tears  in  their  eyes  her  beautiful  let- 
ters, especially  those  appealing  ones  she  pencilled  in 
behalf  of  Tommy  Stringer,  a  poor  little  boy,  doubly 
afflicted  like  herself,  who  in  1891  had  been  sent  to  the 
kindergarten  out  of  Pennsylvania.  To  have  Helen 
apply  to  Tom's  case  the  money  sent  to  her  for  a  new 
dog,  in  place  of  the  one  that  had  been  shot,  was  ex- 
tremely pathetic. 

Another  such  child,  Elizabeth  Eobin,  came  from 
Texas  as  guest  to  the  kindergarten  in  1890.  All  of 
them  were  attractive  as  well  as  interesting.  Streams 
of  visitors  came  to  Jamaica  Plain  to  see  them,  includ- 
ing scientists  and  educators,  but  especially  classes  of 
public  and  private  school  children.  They  were  urged 
to  come  for  mutual  inspiration.  Nothing  more  for- 
tunate could  have  happened :  Edith  Thomas,  Elizabeth 
Eobin  and  Thomas  Stringer  were  an  irresistible  pha- 
lanx—  truly  a  godsend  to  the  struggling  infant  insti- 
tution, just  as  the  beautiful  place  was  a  godsend  to 
them. 

The  first  kindergarten  building  filled  up  rapidly;  a 
second  was  soon  needed  and  in  1893  was  supplied,  to- 


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gether  with  a  second  $100,000  by  way  of  endowment. 
Into  this  new  building  the  girls  of  the  first  building 
moved,  and  enough  new  children  to  fill  both  quickly 
arrived.  In  June,  1892,  came  Helen's  "  tea  "  in  aid 
of  the  kindergarten,  ' '  to  which  all  Boston  came. ' '  An 
account  of  it,  with  copies  of  all  the  loving  letters  of 
that  inspired  child,  fills  36  pages  of  the  sixth  annual 
report. 

Meanwhile  sums  of  money  in  large  amounts  and 
legacies  had  been  coming  in;  so  that  the  fifth  annual 
report  could  state  that  the  total  assets  of  the  kinder- 
garten already  exceeded  a  quarter  of  a  million  of 
dollars.  But  the  more  the  kindergarten  possessed  the 
more  eloquently  Mr.  Anagnos  was  enabled  to  show  how 
good  his  cause  was  and  how  it  merited  ever  more  and 
more  and  more.  He  kept  saying  and  printing,  — ' '  the 
organization  of  an  institution  of  this  kind  is  not  a  mere 
desideratum.;  it  is  an  imperative  necessity."  The  glow 
and  resourcefulness  of  the  man  were  truly  marvellous. 

Magnificent  instrumentalities  of  interest  were  his 
annual  receptions  at  the  kindergarten,  which  were  held 
on  or  near  Froebel's  birthday  in  April.  The  invited 
guests  could  not  but  be  delighted  at  the  charming  little 
exhibition  of  bright  and  happy  children,  looking  and 
acting  so  like  other  children  and  yet  being  so  different. 
The  whole  beautiful  and  homelike  environment  en- 
hanced the  effect.  At  the  1892  reception  the  stranger 
who  might  have  come  from  curiosity  found  in  one 
room  Edith  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  Robin  with  Phillips 
Brooks,  and  in  another,  Helen  Keller  and  Tommy 
Stringer  with  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    Could  any  one 


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resist  the  stirring  appeals  that  were  made  that  day. 
After  one  such  meeting  an  elegantly  dressed  lady  was 
heard  saying:  ''  I  feel  as  though  I  ought  to  go  with- 
out everything  in  the  way  of  dress  that  I  do  not  ab- 
solutely need,  and  give  all  the  extra  money  I  waste 
on  clothes  to  help  these  wonderful  blind  children 
along. ' ' 

People  who  did  not  give  money  gave  materials,  such 
as  dolls  and  a  doll's  house,  a  rocking  horse,  wall  pic- 
tures, music  boxes,  stuffed  specimens  and  lots  of  other 
things.  They  sent  in  ice  cream,  candy,  barrels  of 
apples.  A  neighbor  annually  fetched  to  her  own  grand 
Christmas  tree  the  children  remaining  over  the  holi- 
days and  loaded  them  with  goodies  and  a  sled  apiece. 
One  of  the  lady  visitors  has  provided  the  whole  kinder- 
garten with  a  sleigh  ride  every  winter.  Since  1902 
this  has  meant  carrying  over  100  children  each  year. 
The  first  time  acknowledgments  of  these  favors  and 
courtesies  were  publicly  made  they  filled  two  pages  of 
the  report. 

Mention  should  be  made  of  the  Transcript  Ten- 
dollar  Fund.  A  printed  plea  had  been  issued  by  Mr. 
Anagnos,  showing  the  loss  of  income  to  the  kinder- 
garten from  giving  preference  to  new  admissions  from 
Massachusetts,  who  paid  nothing,  over  applicants 
from  other  states  for  whom  a  tuition  fee  would  have 
been  paid.  A  public-spirited  citizen  of  Boston,  Mr. 
Charles  H.  Bacall,  reading  this  plea,  sent  the  follow- 
ing:— 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Transcript:  —  I  notice  that  Mr.  Anagnos 
states  that  his  income  for  the  Kindergarten  for  the  Blind  will 


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be  reduced  this  year  by  about  five  thousand  dollars,  and  I  wish 
to  suggest  that  five  hundred  men  subscribe  ten  dollars  each  for 
this  worthy  object.  I  will  be  one  to  give  this  amount.  Will 
you  be  kind  enough  to  publish  this  suggestion,  offering  to  re- 
ceive the  funds  for  the  purpose?  It  seems  to  me  a  man  who 
is  engaged  in  such  a  noble  work  as  this  should  not  be  allowed  to 
be  embarrassed  by  a  lack  of  funds  in  such  a  city  as  Boston,  and 
I  have  no  doubt  there  are  not  only  five  hundred  but  a  thousand 
citizens,  who  will  be  glad  to  contribute  this  sum.         C.  H.  B. 

The  response  was  ready  and  liberal.  One  giver 
wrote:  ''  It  is  a  good  thing  for  Bostonians  to  give  to 
the  blind  children.  It  keeps  everybody  close  to  the 
very  spirit  of  kindergarten  work,  which  is  living  with 
children,  as  Froebel  taught,  caring  for  their  needs 
from  full  sympathetic  understanding,  not  merely  from 
cold  conviction."  The  Transcript  fund  brought  in 
$5,666.75. 

Indeed,  the  contributory  friends  of  the  kindergarten 
enterprise  grew  to  be  a  host.  Many  of  them  were  old 
people  and  as  they  died  notices  of  their  lives  and  good 
deeds  were  printed  in  the  annual  reports.  Members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Mr.  Anagnos  wrote  them. 
From  1894  on  these  obituaries  formed  a  considerable 
department  of  each  report.  It  is  believed  that  they 
were  potent  in  effect ;  for  the  list  of  legacies  grew  ever 
larger  and  larger.  The  eleventh  report  announced  the 
total  assets  to  exceed  a  half  million ;  the  fourteenth,  to 
exceed  three-quarters  of  a  million ;  the  nineteenth,  Mr. 
Anagnos 's  last,  to  exceed  a  million. 

One  lady  kept  giving  until  her  gifts  amounted  to 
$140,000.     The  second  house,  occupied  in  1893,  was 


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called  after  her,  the  Helen  Curtis  Bradlee  Building. 
Mr.  Anagnos  had  found  at  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition  a  Miss  Molander  from  Finland,  who  had 
taught  a  short  time  at  the  Wisconsin  School  for  the 
Blind  and  whom  he  recognized  as  eminently  fitted  to 
introduce  to  the  girls  of  this  building  sloyd  principles 
as  applied  to  sewing  and  knitting;  for  he  recognized 
in  her  models  and  work  the  progression  which  he 
firmly  believed  in  as  pedagogically  sound.  He  engaged 
her  services.  She  came  to  Boston  that  fall,  remaining 
a  full  year  at  the  kindergarten,  both  teaching  the  chil- 
dren and  inspiring  her  fellow  teachers,  and  writing 
out  a  complete  course  of  manual  training  in  soft  ma- 
terials for  younger  girls.  This  course  Mr.  Anagnos 
published  and  supported  with  all  the  power  of  his 
facile  pen;  and  it  remains  to-day  fundamental  at  the 
Perkins  Institution.  Miss  Molander  has  since  carried 
her  principles  and  methods  into  other  schools  for  the 
blind  in  this  country  and  abroad. 

With  the  Bradlee  Building  was  erected  also  the 
nucleus  of  a  central  or  school  building,  whose  plans 
were  made  by  the  same  Mr.  Eeardon  who  was  during 
Mr.  Anagnos 's  whole  incumbency  his  practical  man  of 
affairs.  This  structure  was  never  finished  above  the 
first  story  but  roofed  over  and  used  as  one  often  sees 
a  Catholic  church  put  to  use  until  money  necessary  for 
its  completion  shall  be  in  hand.  It  contained  heating 
plant,  laundry,  gymnasium  and  an  assembly  hall.  This 
hall,  with  large  stage  and  with  seats  for  360,  was  really 
demanded  to  accommodate  the  ever  increasing  audi- 
ences which  every  year  collected  at  the  kindergarten. 


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There  the  children  gave  their  pretty  plays  and  sang 
the  songs  which  went  to  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

Though  the  children  were  kept  out  of  doors  a  quar- 
ter of  each  school  time  hour  and  were  taken  on  daily 
walks  in  the  neighboring  parks  and  so  grew  strong  and 
well,  yet  with  the  gymnasium  and  the  introduction  of 
the  Ling  system  of  gymnastics  it  became  possible  to 
adapt  the  physical  training  to  individual  needs  and 
by  this  means  to  correct  in  some  measure  cases  of  de- 
formity and  of  retarded  development.  Both  Miss 
Johnson,  the  girls'  kindergartner,  and  the  kinder- 
gartner  of  the  boys,  Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Davidson,  became 
devotedly  interested  in  this  matter,  and  to  them  and 
to  Dr.  E.  G.  Brackett,  who  donated  some  special  ap- 
paratus, and  to  other  specialists  of  Boston,  under 
whose  direction  they  labored,  many  an  erect  young 
man  and  woman  owes  his  present  faultless  carriage. 
This  later  led  to  the  kindergarten's  employing  a  spe- 
cial assistant  in  corrective  gymnastics. 

With  the  third  year  came  the  special  teacher  of 
music,  and  from  that  time  onward  music  played  a 
large  part  in  the  life  of  the  school.  The  sixth  annual 
report  records  the  presence  of  two  music  teachers,  and 
the  eighth  states  that  forty  pupils  were  studying  the 
piano  and  five  the  violin;  and  the  twelfth,  that  Miss 
Fletcher's  ''  simplex  method  "  of  leading  children  in 
a  rational  way  to  the  study  of  music  had  just  been 
introduced;  Miss  Fletcher  herself  helped  in  its  intro- 
duction and  adaptation.  When  later  a  full  orchestra 
of  some  forty  older  pupils  was  formed  at  South  Bos- 
ton, it  became  excellent  beyond  what  is  usual  among 


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amateurs.    Mr.  Edwin  L.  Grardiner,  the  director  of  the 
music  department,  wrote  of  it: 

The  success  of  this  band  was  due  in  no  small  degree  to  the 
early  training  of  individual  players  in  the  kindergarten  and 
the  primary  schools.  When  promoted  to  the  upper  school  they 
came  to  us  thoroughly  grounded  in  the  fundamentals  of  music 
and  trained  to  great  diligence  and  accuracy  in  its  practice. 
Their  superiority  over  those  without  this  early  training  was 
clearly  manifest  and  it  was  these  kindergarten  children  who  at 
later  periods  came  to  form  the  backbone  of  this  very  successful 
school  orchestra. 

This  twelfth  year  saw  a  third  household  assembled 
in  a  building  of  its  own,  named  for  a  munificent  giver, 
the  Sarah  E.  Potter  Building.  Before  then  these  chil- 
dren who  had  reached  primary  grade  had  been  sent 
to  South  Boston  too  early  for  their  good.  It  was 
glaringly  evident  that  such  should  be  retained  at 
Jamaica  Plain  while  still  of  tender  age.  Hence  the 
new  building  became  the  boys '  primary,  the  need  being 
the  greater  in  the  case  of  boys. 

This  period  marks  a  change  in  the  local  administra- 
tion. Miss  Greeley,  who  had  been  the  devoted  and 
eflficient  matron  of  the  first  building  from  the  begin- 
ning, and  then  head  of  the  first  and  second  buildings, 
resigned,  and  with  her  departure  came  this  change: 
each  separate  house  was  given  its  own  independent 
matron  and  was  as  separate  and  distinct  a  family  as 
any  two  adjacent  homes  are.  Under  Mr.  Anagnos  this 
plan  has  worked  best,  for,  as  has  been  said,  he  was 
singularly  happy  in  finding  the  right  kind  of  assistants. 


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—  people  who  could  throw  themselves  into  their  posi- 
tions and  fill  them  with  a  devotion  that  was  often  con- 
secration. He  engaged  them  in  the  belief  that  they 
would  be  fully  efficient:  he  gave  them  responsibility, 
and  under  it  they  usually  grew  to  be  equal  to  it. 

This  scheme  of  having  separate  departmental  heads, 
both  at  Jamaica  Plain  and  South  Boston,  freed  him 
from  the  multitude  of  administrative  details  with 
which  superintendents  are  too  often  afflicted,  and  so 
left  him  his  best  energies  for  carrying  to  fruition  the 
great  purpose  of  his  life.  He  had  no  office  as  such  at 
South  Boston  but  kept  largely  by  himself  in  the  di- 
rector's quarters,  accessible  though  still  remote;  and 
there  in  his  cheery  study  he  read  and  wrote  and 
thought.  Mrs.  Anagnos  having  died  about  the  time  the 
kindergarten  was  begun,  Mr.  Anagnos 's  first  care  for 
the  rest  of  his  life  was  for  this  child  of  his  heart  and 
brain.  He  once  said  that  his  appeals  and  other  writ- 
ings in  its  behalf  were  done  in  his  bedroom  before 
breakfast.  Then  he  was  sure  of  freedom  from  inter- 
ruptions. In  fact,  so  incessant  were  his  solitary  labors 
that  he  broke  down  twice  and  went  abroad  for  many 
months  each  time.  And  here  was  where  his  plan  of 
having  many  responsible  heads  proved  its  worth;  the 
institution  ran  along  in  his  absence  much  as  it  did 
when  he  was  near  by.  The  long  years  of  identical  ad- 
ministration with  veteran  officers  as  heads  insured 
stability  and  made  this  entirely  possible.  As  for  the 
kindergarten,  six  miles  away  from  South  Boston  and 
for  many  years  without  even  telephone  connection  with 
it,  was  it  not  a  strange  confirmation  of  Mr.  Anagnos 's 


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theory  of  the  effectiveness  of  absent  treatment  under 
ideal  conditions  that  that  little  group  of  boarding 
schools,  which  he  regularly  visited  but  once  a  week, 
should  excel  in  spirit  and  result  even  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution where  he  dwelt? 

But  all  matters  did  not  move  during  his  absence  as 
he  desired.  However,  upon  his  return  whatever  radi- 
cal remedy  was  needed  to  right  them  he  applied. 
Nothing  stood  in  his  way  when  fundamental  principles 
were  at  stake.  There  were  those  even  of  his  Board 
of  Trustees  who  welcomed  the  lull  in  issuing  appeals, 
which  occurred  in  his  absence ;  but  upon  his  return  the 
bombardment  began  again  with  increased  urgency,  and 
no  one  said  him  nay.  No  knight  errant  was  ever  less 
recreant  to  what  he  deemed  his  responsibility  and  his 
duty.  He  had  accepted  in  its  entirety  Froebel's  grand 
call  to  *  •  live  for  others. ' '  The  President  of  his  Board, 
Dr.  Samuel  Eliot,  whom  he  had  won  over  from  luke- 
warmness  to  ardent  support,  used  annually  to  hand 
over  to  Mr.  Anagnos  his  check  for  $100  on  the  occasion 
of  the  spring  reception  at  the  kindergarten,  saying: 
**  I  must  contribute  my  share  before  asking  others  to 
do  so." 

Miss  Greeley's  last  report  to  Mr.  Anagnos  is  full 
and  interesting,  enlarging  upon  the  potent  influences 
of  combining  the  home  element  with  that  of  the  school ; 
for  each  household  was  as  homelike  as  natural  devo- 
tion and  the  consciousness  of  service  could  make  it. 
The  atmosphere  was  delightful.  She  dwells  upon  the 
glad  responsiveness  of  the  children;  how  they  forget 
themselves    in    their    absorbing    occupations    and    so 


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"  come  into  a  new  and  growing  acquaintance  with 
things,  their  use  and  their  beauty,  until  work  seems  a 
delight  and  idleness  a  burden."  Thus,  the  *'  so-called 
drudgery  is  robbed  of  its  distasteful  aspect,  and  it  be- 
comes a  welcome  task  to  participate  in  the  household 
work,  to  sweep  and  dust,  to  lay  the  tables,  to  wash  and 
wipe  the  dishes,  and,  weekly,  with  pail  and  cloth,  on 
bended  knee,  to  assist  in  the  house-cleaning."  She 
mentions  the  entertainments  which  the  various  houses 
gave;  how  they  ''  help  to  fashion  tastes,  ideas  and 
affections  and  are  a  powerful  incentive  to  good  con- 
duct; "  and  how  in  that  year,  1897,  the  primary  boys 
presented  an  original  adaptation  of  Cinderella  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Elizabeth  Peabody  House  in  Boston, 
"  and,  as  a  result,  the  sum  of  $8  was  sent  to  the  Home, 
with  the  request  that  it  be  used  for  the  purchase  of 
flour;  "  how  the  girls,  not  to  be  outdone  by  the  boys, 
gave  the  following  year  a  program  of  songs  and  recita- 
tions, sending  the  sum  of  $11  to  the  same  beneficent 
charity. 

That  same  year  wood  sloyd  was  introduced  under  a 
graduate  from  Mr.  Gustaf  Larsson's  sloyd  training 
school  and  proved  itself  so  interesting  to  the  boys  and 
withal  so  developmental  that  when  in  1903  the  next 
household  was  formed,  the  girls '  primary,  another  sloyd 
teacher  came.  And  indeed  why  should  not  young  girls 
as  well  as  boys  be  given  the  chance  to  grow  through 
making  and  doing  many  things,  to  feel  themselves 
also  constructive  agents  and  producers?  Wood  sloyd 
multiplied  the  resources  of  the  children  for  making 
things  for  others.    Imagine  the  long-drawn-out  delight 


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it  was  to  accumulate  a  lot  of  Christmas  presents  for 
father  and  mother,  for  brother  and  sister  and  friends, 
not  forgetting  matrons,  teachers  and  Mr.  Anagnos. 
The  habit  of  giving  and  doing  for  others  is  particu- 
larly good  for  blind  children. 

This  girls'  primary  building  had  also  been  begged 
for  in  letters,  speeches,  and  througli  demonstrations 
by  the  children.  For  several  years  Mr.  Anagnos  had 
grown  eloquent  over  the  fruits  already  obtained  but 
made  this  very  excellence  the  reason  for  not  withhold- 
ing more  opportunities.  Mr.  Joseph  Beal  Glover,  a 
trustee,  had  been  an  especial  champion  of  the  kinder- 
garten project,  and  when  he  died  in  1902,  his  estate 
yielded  to  it  $70,000,  for  which  fact  this  fourth  build- 
ing was  named  for  him. 

In  two  years  more,  or  in  1905,  Mr.  Anagnos  was 
able  to  announce  that  the  million-dollar  mark  had  been 
passed.  But  having  established  his  kindergarten  and 
primary  departments  so  much  to  his  satisfaction  at 
Jamaica  Plain,  he  was  planning  to  build  there  also  for 
all  his  pupils  of  grammar  and  high  school  age  and 
have  at  South  Boston  only  such  as  were  pursuing  ad- 
vanced vocational  work,  like  music  and  piano  tuning, 
or  were  preparing  for  college.  For  these  he  intended 
upon  his  return  from  Greece  in  1906  to  launch  an 
appeal  for  $100,000  to  be  used  as  scholarships.  He 
wrote  in  his  nineteenth  report  of  the  kindergarten  as 
follows :  — 

Let  Us  Work  for  Greater  Progress. 

Forward !  let  the  heights  you  climb 
Point  men  to  heights  still  more  sublime. 

—  Mary  M.  Adams. 


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In  closing  this  report  we  desire  to  express  our  sense  of 
deep  gratitude  to  every  one  of  those  who  have  in  any  way 
helped  us  to  conduct  the  affairs  of  the  kindergarten  through 
another  period  of  twelve  months  and  to  make  preparations 
for  enlarging  the  field  of  its  operations  and  for  increasing 
its  usefulness. 

In  entering  upon  the  duties  of  a  new  year  we  have  ample 
cause  to  be  thankful  for  what  has  been  already  achieved  and 
lies  behind.  "  The  past  at  least  is  secure."  But  while  we 
think  of  it  joyfully  and  hold  its  treasures  in  our  heart  for 
aye,  we  must  reach  forward  to  the  things  before.  In  front 
of  us  lie  the  hills  sunlit  with  promise  of  fairer  fulfilments 
than  the  past  could  know.  Let  us  then  press  onward  to  the 
goal  of  our  aspirations. 

During  the  eighteen  years  that  have  elapsed  since  the 
establishment  of  the  kindergarten  we  have  come  along  in  all 
kinds  of  weather,  cheered  by  the  sunlight  that  has  fallen 
upon  our  path  and  passing  through  the  shadows  unscathed. 
Journeying  on  into  the  undiscovered  days  ahead  of  us,  let 
us  go  forward  with  courage  and  with  good  cheer.  What 
tonic  there  is  in  the  fine  unconcern  of  Emerson,  when  he 

sings  — 

Nature  shall  mind  her  own  affairs; 
I  will  attend  my  proper  cares, 
In  rain,  or  sun,  or  frost. 

These  were  Ms  last  published  words  in  behalf  of  his 
darling  project.  Within  the  next  year  he  went  abroad 
in  order  to  carry  out  certain  cherished  intentions  in 
his  native  land.  He  wished  to  found  there  schools  for 
girls  and  by  the  provisions  of  his  will  did  so.  His 
death  in  far  off  Roumania,  insufficiently  explained  and 


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announced,  threw  the  little  world  of  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution into  temporary  consternation.  But  the  kinder- 
garten was  safe  and  sound  as  a  financially  independent 
entity;  moreover,  it  had  become  so  enshrined  in  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  its  friends  that,  though  the  writ- 
ten and  spoken  appeals  ceased,  the  impetus  of  giving 
continued.  Wills  made  during  Mr.  Anagnos's  lifetime, 
some  of  them  not  without  his  knowledge,  became  one 
by  one  operative.  Every  year,  even  this  present  one 
of  1913,  has  seen  bequests  come  in.  In  1908  the  Potter 
estate  alone  yielded  over  $395,000.  At  the  close  of  the 
fiscal  year  1912-13  the  total  assets  of  the  kindergarten 
were  $2,030,544.30,  and  the  management,  which  were 
then  in  the  throes  of  transferring  the  whole  Perkins 
Institution  to  its  new  site  at  Watertown,  were  doing 
what  they  could  to  divert  the  stream  of  assistance 
from  ''  the  sole  use  of  the  kindergarten  "  to  the  cor- 
poration of  the  institution  without  restriction;  for  the 
child  was  then  richer  than  the  parent  and  had  more 
than  it  needed  while  the  parent  had  less. 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  new  plant  at  Watertown 
could  not  have  been  built  at  this  time,  had  it  not  been 
arranged  that  the  kindergarten  should  bear  its  right- 
ful share  of  the  initial  cost  and  of  the  continued  main- 
tenance expense,  besides  lending  to  the  institution  a 
sum  outright.  This  was  just,  since  the  parent  insti- 
tution had  done  the  same  for  the  kindergarten  and  had 
in  the  early  days  fostered  this  child  in  every  possible 
way. 

Mr.  Anagnos  had  figured  so  largely  before  the  pub- 
lic and  the  success  of  his  labors  in  behalf  of  the  blind 


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children  of  the  conimonwealth  had  been  so  pronounced 
that  a  public  meeting  in  his  memory  was  held  in 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  at  which,  among  others, 
spoke  the  Mayor  of  the  city,  the  Governor  of  the  state, 
and  a  Senator  of  the  United  States.  How  little  could 
all  this  be  foreseen  when  forty  years  before  he,  a  non- 
English-speaking  Greek,  asked  Dr.  Howe  to  take  him 
to  America. 

Mrs.  Howe  said  in  one  of  her  last  talks  to  the  older 
pupils  at  South  Boston: 

When  I  look  back  upon  the  life  of  my  dear  husband,  at  what 
he  has  done,  and  when  I  see  around  me  all  that  he  has  accom- 
plished, I  often  say  to  myself,  "  How  could  one  man  do  so 
much  ?  "  The  answer  to  this  question,  both  with  Dr.  Howe  and 
Mr.  Anagnos,  is  that  both  possessed  in  a  remarkable  degree, 
two  qualities  which  are,  I  think,  quite  opposite  and  not  always 
found  in  the  same  person,  —  that  is,  promptitude  and  perse- 
verance. Many  people  are  prompt  in  taking  up  a  new  work. 
I  have  myself  had  the  experience,  and  I  have  no  doubt  you 
have,  that  I  was  on  fire  with  zeal  to  begin  a  new  undertaking, 
but  when  the  ardor  of  the  impulse  passed  away  it  was  diflBcult 
to  continue  the  work.  With  Dr.  Howe  and  with  Mr.  Anagnos 
the  sufficient  answer  to  this  feeling  was,  "  It  is  to  be  done."  So 
by  perseverance  the  work  was  accomplished.  This,  I  think,  is 
one  of  the  lessons  which  these  great  lives  teach  us. 

It  remains  to  chronicle  the  celebration  of  the  25th 
anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the  kindergarten. 
This  was  put  on  November  7,  Mr.  Anagnos 's  birth- 
day, and  thus  the  occasion  naturally  and  appropriately 
commemorated  alike  his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  the 


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blind  and  its  result.  Mr.  Reardon,  the  architect,  Miss 
Greeley  and  Miss  Vose,  first  matron  and  her  assistant, 
Miss  Johnson,  first  kindergartner,  Miss  Poulsson, 
first  publicity  agent,  Miss  Lane,  treasurer  of  the 
Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  and  others  of  the  original 
friends  of  the  kindergarten  were  present,  and  most 
of  them  added  their  spoken  testimony  of  loyalty  and 
affection  for  the  creator  of  the  little  institution,  or 
reminiscences  of  its  early  days  and  achievements. 
Some  500  pupils  had  been  enrolled  at  the  kindergarten. 
Fully  100  of  these  were  present  and  in  one  way  or 
another  testified  to  what  the  kindergarten  had  meant 
to  their  young  lives.  That  it  had  been  for  many  their 
salvation  goes  without  saying.  Only  one  little  state- 
ment, however,  shall  be  repeated  here,  from  a  young 
man  struggling  to  establish  himself  in  life.  It  is  this : 
*'  No  matter  what  happens  to  me,  how  hard  my  life, 
—  nothing  can  ever  deprive  me  of  my  happy  childhood 
days  at  the  kindergarten." 

When  plans  were  making  for  the  new  home  of  the 
kindergarten  at  Watertown,  the  essential  features  of 
its  family  system  were  religiously  retained  because 
they  had  proved  themselves  so  ideal.  These  were  and 
therefore  still  are  four  units,  each  distinct  and  inde- 
pendent under  its  own  responsible  matron,  and  teach- 
ers, and  each  with  its  own  schoolrooms  attached.  The 
improvements  in  conditions  are  these,  — ■  fireproof 
buildings,  individual  nurseries  for  the  sick,  a  closer 
association  with  the  parent  institution,  which  is  best 
alike  for  administration  and  for  economical  manage- 
ment of  both.    Nevertheless,  if  the  second  quarter  cen- 


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tury  of  its  existence  can  commemorate  as  equal  a 
success  as  its  first,  it  will  be  fortunate  indeed ;  for  few 
institutions  have  had  a  history  of  better  service.  In 
it  the  principles  of  Froebel  have  been  faithfully  car- 
ried out  by  a  noble  band  of  workers  who  actually  did 
live  with  the  children. 

If  any  justification  of  Mr.  Anagnos  's  really  splendid 
work  to  establish  the  kindergarten  were  needed,  it 
might  be  had  in  the  statement  of  his  principal  teacher 
of  many  years  at  South  Boston,  Miss  Gazella  Bennett, 
who  wrote  that  those  of  her  pupils  who  entered  the 
upper  school  after  taking  the  kindergarten  and  the 
primary  course  at  Jamaica  Plain  were  distinctly  su- 
perior to  those  who  entered  without  it:  and  that  their 
gain  over  the  others  was  directly  attributable  to  their 
attitude  as  learners,  to  their  mental  discipline,  and  to 
their  superior  manual  dexterity;  which  statement 
bears  out  the  following,  copied  from  the  Christian 
Union,  February  28,  1884 :  — 

It  is  one  of  the  most  notable  of  recent  discoveries  in  educa- 
tion that  the  system  of  pre-primary  education,  devised  by 
Froebel,  has  a  peculiar  advantage  for  the  blind.  IN'early  all  the 
gifts  and  occupations  can  be  made  a  basis  of  both  manual  and 
mental  training  for  them,  with  at  least  equal  if  not  indeed 
better  results  than  with  normal  children. 


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SIXTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

IN  THE  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at 

Watertown,  Wednesday  Evening,  May  28,  1913,  at  8.15  o'clock. 

The  Program. 

PART  ONE. 

The  Heavens  are  telling, Joseph  Haydn 

Ave  Verum, Mozart 

Hymn  to  the  Madonna, Kremser-S picker 

The  Silent  Sea, W.  E.  Neidlinger 

Excerpts  from  Hymn  of  Praise,         ....     Mendelssohrt 

"  I  Waited  for  the  Lord,"  duet  and  chorus. 

"  The  Sorrows  of  Death,"  tenor  aria. 

•'  The  Night  is  Departing,"  chorus. 

"  My  Song  shall  be  alway  thy  Mercy,"  duet  for  soprano  and  tenor. 
Land  Sighting, Grieg-Spicker 

PART  TWO. 

Hiawatha's     Wedding     Feast,     a     cantata    for 

chorus,  with  tenor  solo,        .        .        .        .  S.  Coleridge  Taylor 
The  Choir  will  have  the  assistance  of 
Mrs.   Ethel   Brigham,   Soprano,   and  Mr.   Loriston   Stockwell, 

Baritone. 


1833-1913. 


GRADUATING  EXERCISES   OF   THE   PERKINS  INSTITU- 
TION   AND    MASSACHUSETTS    SCHOOL 
FOR    THE    BLIND. 

Thursday,  June  19,  1913,  10.30  a.m. 

Program. 
Chorus,  "The  Night  is  Departing,"    ....     Mendelssohn 
Essays: 

The  Child  and  Play, Gladys  Miller 

The  Boyhood  of  Some  Famous  Musicians, 

Emma  Josephine  SheflBeld 

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The  Children  of  Literature: 

The  Child's  Place  in  Literature,  .  .  Ruth  Rodman  Hayden 
Child  Chai-acters  of  Dickens.  .  .  Agnes  Eulalia  Norton 
Representative  Children  of  American  Literature, 

Elizabeth  Anderson 

Children's  Poets, Elsie  Mabel  Cummings 

Children  of  the  Drama,        .        .        .  Catherine  Rosalie  Kelly 

Organ,  "  Spring  Song," Hollins 

Margaret  Sewall  Ryan 
Essays : 

Some  Facts  about  our  Navy,  ,         .        .        George  Lewis  Dodge 
The  Partition  of  Poland,         .        .       Donald  Whitney  Wheaton 

Watertown, Howard  WilUam  Blood 

The  Planets, Paul  Leslie  West 

History  and  Development  of  the  American  Flag, 

Roy  Joseph  Clukia 

Presentation  of  Diplomas. 

Chorus,  "  The  Twenty-third  Psalm,"  ....         Neidlinger 


Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1913. 

girls'  department. 

Elizabeth  Anderson. 
Ruth  Rodman  Hayden. 
Gladys  Miller. 


Elsie  Mabel  Cummings. 
Catherine  Rosalie  Kelly. 
Agnes  Eulalia  Norton. 


Emma  Josephine  SheflSeld. 
boys'  department. 


Howard  William  Blood. 
George  Lewis  Dodge. 


Roy  Joseph  Clukia. 
Paul  Leslie  West. 


Donald  Whitney  Wheaton. 

certificates  in  tuning. 
Silvio  Ceppi.  |  William  Forest  Holbrook. 

Class  Colors:  Purple  and  Gold. 

Class  Flower :  Sweet  Pea. 

Class  Motto:  Onward  and  Upward. 


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THE  PERKINS  INSTITUTION  ATHLETIC  ASSOCIATION. 

Records  made  by  the  Perkins  Team  in  a  Contest  between  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Castle  Perilous,  Watertown, 

Saturday,  May  3,  1913,  10  o'Clock  a.m. 
Truman  L.  Butterfield,  Physical  Director. 

One  hundred  yard  dash, 11  seconds. 

Seventy-five  yard  dash, 


Fifty  yard  dash, 
Standing  broad  jump, 
Standing  high  jump, 
Three  standing  broad  jumps, 
Running  hop,  step  and  jump. 
Twelve-pound  shot  put, 


8%  seconds. 

5%  seconds. 

9  feet  31/2  inches. 

4  feet  31^  inches. 
28  feet  6  inches. 
35  feet  4  inches. 
31  feet  12  inches. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  foe  Conceets  and  Kecitals. 

To  Maj.  Heney  Lee  Higqinson,  tkrough  Mr.  C.  A.  Ellis, 
for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts  in 
Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  EiCHAED  Newman,  for  twenty-two  tickets  for  each 
of  two  recitals  in  Steinert  Hall. 

To  the  Music  Depaetment  of  Boston,  for  an  average  of 
thirteen  tickets  for  each  of  three  municipal  concerts. 

To  Miss  Lauea  Kelsey,  for  thirty  tickets  for  a  concert 
given  for  the  Italian  Mission  in  Jacob  Sleeper  Hall. 

To  Mrs.  E.  S.  Goulston,  for  ten  tickets  for  a  benefit  con- 
cert of  the  Central  Jewish  Organization  in  Colonial  Theatre. 

To  Mrs.  H.  P.  King,  for  eight  tickets  for  an  entertainment 
by  Miss  Isabel  Florence  and  pupils  in  Jordan  Hall. 

To  Miss  Rose  Casassa,  for  ten  tickets  for  a  Japanese  Girl 
Operetta,  given  by  the  Eriday  Evening  Girls'  Chorus. 

II.  —  Acknowledgments    foe    Recitals    and    Lectuees 
GIVEN  IN  CUE  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Aelo  Bates,  for  a  lecture  on  "  Literary  Moods." 
To  Prof.  Cael  Faelten,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 
To  the  Rev.  Petee  MacQueen,  for  a  lecture  on  "  Pan- 
ama." 

To  Mr.  William  J).  Steong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 


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III.  —  Acknowledgments   foe   Periodicals   and  ^N'ews- 

PAPEES. 

American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  ISTews,  Christian 
Eecord  (embossed),  Christian  Kegister,  Colorado  Index, 
ifitude,  Jamaica  Plain  News,  Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine  for 
the  Blind  (embossed),  The  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  New 
England  Journal  of  Education,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb 
Animals,  The  Silent  Worker,  The  Washingtonian,  The  Well- 
Spring,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman's  Journal,  Youth's 
Companion. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  foe  Gifts  and  Seevices. 

Dr.  E.  G.  Beackett,  Dr.  F.  I.  Peoctoe  and  Dr.  Heney 
Hawkins,  for  professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Chaeitable  Eye  and  Eae  Infiemaey 
AND  Faulknee  Hospital,  for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Miss  Maey  C.  Leaened  and 
the  Chuech  of  the  Messiah,  Auburadale,  for  gifts  of 
money. 

Miss  J.  W.  Feothingham,  for  a  Columbia  graphophone 
with  twenty-four  French  records  for  Eosenthal  language 
study, 

Mrs.  P.  O'M.  Edson,  for  a  Braillewriter. 

Mrs.  Chambeelain  and  Mrs.  Chestee  Coeey,  for  gifts 
of  clothing. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Geay,  Mrs.  E.  Peeble  Motley, 
Mrs.  Bacon,  the  Misses  Slocum,  Mr.  Feank  McLaughlin, 
Mrs.  CoENELius  Kelleheb,  Dr.  W.  D.  Inglis  and  the  S. 
S.  Pieece  Company,  for  fruit,  vegetables,  candy  and  ice- 
cream. 


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Eev.  M.  E.  Deming,  for  a  day's  outing  for  the  kinder- 
garten children  at  Sharon,  by  automobiles  furnished  by  the 
Boston  Automobile  Dealers'  Association,  through  Mr. 
Chester  I.  Campbell. 

Dr.  John  Dixwell,  curator  of  the  Hospital  Music  Fund, 
and  Miss  Patty  Flint,  for  entertainments. 

Mr.  C.  B.  R.  Hazeltine  and  Miss  Harkiet  B.  Hazel- 
tine,  for  books. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 


Abbott,  Edna  M. 
Anderson,  Muriel  C. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Billow,  Kuth  K. 
Brannick,  Elizabeth. 
Cohen,  Alice. 
Cross,  Helen  A. 
Daicy,  Gertrude  C. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Duffy,  Nelly. 
Elder,  Gladys  M. 
Earnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Eetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Forrest,  Elizabeth. 
French,  Agnes  G. 
Fullerton,  Hattie  M. 
Gadbois,  Eoselma. 
Gagnon,  Albertina. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Galvin,  Rose. 
Gorman,  Marie  T. 
Gould,  Viola  M. 
Gray,  Nettie  C. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Hamilton,  Annie  A. 
Hill,  Lila  N. 
Hollowell,  Alice  G. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Jarvis,  Beatrice. 
Kennedy,  Annie  M. 
Kimball,  Eleanor. 


Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lapham,  Ethel  M. 
Levesque,  Mary  A. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Martin,  Lea. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miller,  Margaret. 
Minahan,  Annie  E. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Mueller,  Frances  M.  A. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Parcher,  F.  Mabel. 
Perella,  Julia. 
Pinto,  Minnie  P. 
Eoss,  Lena. 
Ryan,  Helen  L. 

Shean,  Lucy  M. 

Sibley,  Marian  C. 

Smith,  Elena. 

Smith,  Gladys  B. 

Stevens,  Ethel  M. 

Stevens,  Gladys  L. 

Stewart,  Alice  L. 

Stone,  Cora  M. 

Terry,  Annie  B. 

Thompson,  Mary. 

Turner,  Nellie. 

Vilaine,  Mary  C. 


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Viles,  Alison  P. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Watkins,  Gladys  M. 
Welch,  Ellen. 
Westwood,  Laura  I. 
Wood,  Adeline  H. 
Bonasera,  Joseph. 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Carr,  Lewis  F. 
Chatterton,  Percival. 
Clarke,  Jerold  P. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L, 
Conboy,  George  A. 
Connor,  Francis. 
Cowan,  John  W. 
Cuervo,  Adolfo  G. 
Cushman,  Ealph. 
Deming,  Harold  B. 
Devine,  Joseph  P. 
Dow,  Basil  E. 
Duncan,  Wilbert. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Fontana,  Dominic. 
Forester,  Frank  W. 
Freeman,  Sylvester. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gifford,  Shirley  M.  A. 
Grant,  Alfred. 
Gray,  James. 
Greene,  George. 
Hadley,  Kenneth  G. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Hamilton,  Oren  V. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N, 


Hough,  J.  Stanley. 
Howard,  Thomas, 
lerardi,  Francesco. 
Immeln,  Hermann  M. 
James,  Elyeius. 
Lemieux,  Osarrio. 
Lindsey,  Perry  E.  S. 
Mack,  Francis  J. 
Main,  Lewis  E. 
Matte,  William. 
McBride,  Thomas  T. 
McFarlane,  James. 
Meehan,  Thaddeus. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Morrill,  Warren  A. 
Nutile,  Patrick. 
Pitman,  Arthur  G. 
Plourde,  Frederick. 
Reeves,  W,  Stanley. 
Roberts,  Chester  N". 
Robertson,  D.  Olin. 
Robertson,  Robert  J. 
Salesses,  Adrian. 
Salmon,  Peter  J. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Sharp,  William  F. 
Simmons,  R.  Delano. 
Spence,  Samuel  J. 
Sullivan,  Arthur  F. 
Tobin,  Paul. 
Tynan,  Maurice  I. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 
Wallockstein,  Jacob. 
Weaver,  John  J. 
Wilcox,  J.  Earl. 
Yott,  Louis. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Abbott,  Josephine  E. 
Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Ahlgren,  Alice  L.  E. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Brooks,  Edna  S. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Burnham,  Euth  E. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Chesson,  Marion. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Davis,  Mary. 
Davis,  Euth  M. 
Desundo,  May  J. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Duke,  Marion  W. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Freeman,  Edith  M. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 
Jackson,  Harriet  B. 


Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kingsley,  Doris  E. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Lavita,  Jennie. 
Lyon,  Hazel. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Perry,  Gertrude. 
Pilling,  Agnes. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Eissman,  Lillian. 
Eose,  Sadie. 
Eousseau,  Lillian. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Savage,  Mary. 
Siebert,  Bessie  L. 
Smith,  Charlotte  W. 
Spencer,  Olive  E. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
TJhrig,  Mary  G. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Wilson,  E.  Edris. 


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Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Booth,  Willard  E. 
Boulter,  Nelson  S. 
Brown,  A.  Stanley. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Cooney,  John. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Crowell,  Arthur  A. 
Curley,  Joseph  H. 
Depoian,  Hrant  G. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Duber,  Karol  J. 
Duffy,  Eugene  J. 
Duffy,  Leo. 
Earle,  Clarence  H. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Esslinger,  Bradford  G. 
Farria,  John  M. 
Ferron,  Homer. 
Fitzgerald,  James  P. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Goodwin,  Amerson. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hennick,  Dominick  A. 
Hennick,  Harold. 
Inglis,  John  S. 


Irish,  Clifford  H. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lillie,  Karl  C. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  L. 
Martin,  Wallace. 
Maziall,  J.  Herbert. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Miller,  Lewis  Wood. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Philpot,  William  E. 
Poline,  John  J. 
Porter,  Charles  J. 
Easmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Eego,  Peter. 
Eyan,  Frank. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Ward,  Frederick. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THOMAS  STRINGER. 


From  September  1,  1912,  to  August  31,  1913. 

Brown,  Mrs.  J.  Conklin,  Berkeley,  Cal $10  00 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B 50  00 

Seabury,  The  Misses,  New  Bedford,  Mass., 5  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  00 

$90  00 

Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend, $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,         .......     100  00 

Primary  Department  of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  First  Methodist 
Protestant  Church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  through  Mrs.  William 
McCracken, 5  00 

$155  00 


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Boston,  Mass.,  November  17,  1913. 

Trustees  of  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the 

Blind. 

Gentlemen  :  —  In  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  Trustees,  we 
have  employed  Edwin  L.  Pride  and  Co.  (Inc.),  Certified  Public 
Accountants,  to  audit  the  books  of  the  Treasurer  and  Institution, 
and  transmit  herewith  their  report. 

Yours  very  truly, 

WARREN  MOTLEY, 
F.  H.  APPLETON,  Jr., 

Auditors. 


Boston,  November  Fifteen,  1913. 

Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen  :  —  At  your  request  we  have  audited  the  accounts  of 
William  Endicott,  Jr.,  Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  August  31,  1913.  We  have  found  that  all  income  from 
investments  and  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  securities  during  the  year 
have  been  accounted  for  and  that  the  donations,  subscriptions  and 
miscellaneous  receipts  as  shown  by  the  books  have  been  deposited  in 
bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Institution. 

We  have  seen  properly  approved  vouchers  for  all  disbursements, 
checked  the  postings  and  footings  of  the  various  general  books  of 
account,  and  verified  the  bank  balances  as  at  the  end  of  the  fiscal 
year. 

We  have  made  an  examination  of  the  stocks  and  bonds  on  hand  in 
the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  on  November  13, 1913,  which  were  found 
to  agree  with  the  books. 

We  hereby  certify  that  the  attached  statements  of  the  Treasurer 
correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
Aug-ust  31,  1913. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDWIN  L.  PRIDE  AND  CO.  (Inc.), 

Certified  Public  Accountants. 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1913:  — 


House,  Stephenson  Estate,  Medford, 
House,  20  Wall  St.,  Charlestown,       .... 
Houses,  64  and  66  Walker  St.,  Charlestown,    . 
Building,  553  Broadway,  H  St.,  and  East  Fourth 

St.,  South  Boston, 

House,  546-548  East  Fourth  St.,  South  Boston, 
House,  552-554  East  Fourth  St.,  South  Boston, 
House,  527  Broadway,  South  Boston 
House,  529  Broadway,  South  Boston 
Unimproved  land,  South  Boston, 
Building,  205-207  Congress  St., 
Building,  58-60  South  St.,  . 


Book  Value. 

$11,700  00 
2,700  00 
6,200  00 

46,800  00 
9,200  00 
9,200  00 
6,800  00 
8,200  00 
1,000  00 
75,800  00 
121,500  00 


$298,100  00 


Real  Estate  used  by  the  Institution. 
Buildings,  545-549  East  Fourth  St.,  South  Boston,  $8,000  00 

Real  estate,  Watertown 672,208  16 


680,208  16 


Stocks  and  Bonds. 
250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     .        .      $25,000  00 
93  shares  United  Shoe  Machinery  Co.,  common,     .  6,045  00 

$25,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1934 23,000  00 

$40,000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1955 37,000  00 

$40,000  New  York,  Ontario  &  Western  R.R.,  4s, 

1992, 38,000  00 

$25,000  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  4s,  1949,     .        24,000  00 
$25,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931, 22,857  14 

$15,000  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.  Co.,  3^s,  1926,        13,500  00 
$15,000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  3is, 

1915 14,000  00 

$37,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  Co., 

general  mortgage,  4s,  1958, 35,500  00 

$25,000  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding,  4s, 

1943, 24,500  00 

$25,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,     .        .        24,000  00 
$25,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934,  .        24,500  00 

Amounts  carried  forward, $311,902  14 


$978,308  16 


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Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward, $311,902  14      $978,308  16 

$5,000  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929 4,450  00 

$25,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4Js,  1931,        24,497  50 

$15,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  5s,  October 

1963, 15,349  50 

$15,000  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Co.,  5%  notes, 

July  1918, 14,418  75 

370,617  89 

Accounts  receivable, 4,417  11 

Petty  cash  funds, 500  00 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer $25,223  15 

Director, 1,821  05 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 1,005  34 

28,049  54 

Works  Department. 
Total  assets 10,110  34 

Music  Department. 

One  three-manual  pipe  organ, $9,000  00 

One  Aeolian  grand, 300  00 

Two  reed  organs, 25  00 

Fifty-eight  pianofortes, 10,400  00 

Thirty-seven  orchestral  instruments,         .        .        .  1,000  00 

Music  library, 3,650  00 

24,375  00 

Library  Department. 

Books  in  common  print $10,034  63 

Books  in  embossed  print 28,629  25 

Special  library 11,287  17 

49,951  05 

Miscellaneous. 

School  furniture  and  apparatus,         ....  $7,803  59 

Household  furniture 10,300  10 

Provisions  and  supplies 1,115  00 

Boys'  shop 463  21 

Stable  and  tools 250  00 

19,931  90 


1,486,260  99 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


dumb 


,  and  blind) 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Institution, 
Stephen  Fairbanks  fund,      . 

Harris  fund, 

Richard  Perkins  fund, 
Stoddard  Capen  fund,  . 
In  memoriam,  Mortimer  C.  Ferris, 
Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft  fund,     . 
Frank  Davison  Rust  fund,  . 
Mary  Lowell  Stone  fund,     . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund, 


Legacies  :  — 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, 
Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 
Calvin  W.  Barker, 
Miss  Lucy  A.  Barker, 
Miss  Mary  Bartol, 
Thompson  Baxter, 
Robert  C.  Billings, 
Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf 
Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 
William  T.  Bolton, 
George  W.  Boyd.  . 
J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 
J.  Edward  Brown, 
T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham, 

Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Colburn, 
David  E.  Cummings,    . 

I.  W.  Danforth,     . 

Joseph  Descalzo,   . 

John  W.  Dix, 

Martha  A.  French, 

Thomas  Gaffield,   . 

Albert  Glover,        .        •  j  ,  ,•   jv 

Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blmd) 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 

Charles  H.  Hayden,      . 

John  C.  Haynes,    . 

Joseph  H.  Heywood,     . 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 

Benjamin  Humphrey,  . 

Martha  R.  Hunt,  . 

Catherine  M.  Lamson, 


$415,825  15 

10,000  00 

80,000  00 

20,000  00 

13,770  00 

1,000  00 

6,000  00 

2,500  00 

2,000  00 

10,000  00 


$561,095  15 


Amounts  carried  forward. 


$3,000  00 
2,500  00 
1,859  32 
5,953  21 
300  00 
322  50 
25,000  00 
4,000  00 
5,832  66 
555  22 
5,000  00 
268,391  24 
100,000  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
7,503  07 
2,500  00 
1,000  00 
10,000  00 
164  40 
6,450  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
6,471  23 
15,000  00 
1,000  00 
500  00 
3,708  32 
25,000  00 
10,000  00 
6,000  00 

$539,011  17     $561,095  15 


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Amounts  brought  forward, $539,011  17      $561,095  15 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Mary  Ann  Locke 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord,    ." 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Susan  B.  Lyman, 4,809  78 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .        .  15,000  00 

Stephen  W.  Marston, 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam, 1,000  00 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 600  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce, 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Charlotte  B.  Richardson 40,507  00 

Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Richardson, 300  00 

Miss  Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust, 2,640  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer, 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield, 2,500  00 

Mary  W.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor, 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Ann  White  Vose 12,994  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait, 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  P.  Weld, 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Thomas  Wyman, 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young, 5,000  00 

762,633  33 

Loans  payable,  Kindergarten, 160,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 2,532  51 


$1,486,260  99 


Donations,  Institution  Account. 

Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P., 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 

Hemenway,  Miss  Clara 

Hornblower,  Henry, 

Naugus  Head  Sunday  School,  through  Miss  Mary  A.  Cole, 

Pratt,  R.  M., 

Seabury,  The  Misses, 

Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard, 


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$15  00 

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100 

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100 

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13 

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100 

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25 

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25 

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$383  00 

5,107  00 

$5,490  00 

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entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1913:  — 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

Stocks  and  Bonds.  Book  Value. 

95  shares  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co $23,038  87 

100  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       .  8,737  00 

15  shares  Suffolk  Real  Estate  Trust,         .        .        .  15,000  00 

10  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust,      .        .        .  900  00 

50  shares  General  Electric  Co., 5,505  12 

400  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,    .  55,441  53 
$10,000  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R. 

(Montana  Extension),  4s,  1937,      ....  9,00000 
$10,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s,  1921,  .  10,000  00 
$2,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Illi- 
nois Division),  3^s,  1949 1,800  00 

$25,000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  SjS, 

1915, 23,850  00 

$30,000  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929, 26,950  00 

$10,000  Seattle  Electric  Co.,  5s,  1930,       .        .        .  10,400  00 
$10,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 9,300  00 

$5,000  American   Coal   Product   Co.,   6%    notes, 

July  1,  1916, 4,875  00 

$204,797  52 

Accounts  receivable, 267  70 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer, $1,546  14 

Director, 253  01 

1,799  15 

Stock  and  machinery, $2,555  00 

Books  (bound  and  unbound)  and  sheet  music,         .  5,180  00 

Electrotype  and  stereotype  plates,     ....  22,847  00 

30,582  00 

$237,446  37 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 

PRINTING   FUND. 

General  funds  of  the  Department $221,047  16 

The  Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  fund   (bequest  of 

Mary  M.  S.  Spaulding) 5,000  00 

$226,047  16 

Legacies:  — 

Joseph  H.  Center $1,000  00 

Augusta  WeU 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable, 109  21 

$237,446  37 


Works  Department. 

Balance  Sheet  —  August  31,  1913. 

Assets. 

Cash $382  80 

Accounts  receivable, 3,454  32 

Stock  on  hand,  material,  etc 4,340  22 

$8,177  34 

Tools  and  equipment, 1,933  00 

$10,110  34 
Liabilities. 
Balance  due  Institution:  — 

Current  account, $9,888  31 

Net  profit  for  year 222  03 

$10,110  34 

Profit  and  Loss  Account. 

Revenue. 

Sales,  repairs,  etc., $29,330  65 

Recovered  from  accounts  receivable  charged  off,    .  33  27 

$29,363  92 

Expenditures. 

Materials  used $10,615  94 

Salaries  and  wages, 14,384  30 

General  expense 3,791  90 

28,792  14 

Gross  profit, $571  78 

Less:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,      .  $227  97 

Reserve  for  bad  debts, 121  78 

349  75 

Net  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1913,     .        .        .        .  $222  03 


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ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND  OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Institution. 

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Meats  and  tish 

MUk  and  dairy  products, ^'^^^  ^^ 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., '         ^g 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables '■'^^'  ^J^ 

^^^'  • , 418  88 

Laundry,                 5,604  69 

Light,  heat,  and  power ^'^^^  ^^ 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods •         ^^ 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, „.  c^^   ct 

Salaries  and  wages ^ 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies, «iq  aq 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies o  ^oo  ca 

Expenses  on  property  let, ^ 

Taxes  and  insurance, I'yQfi  18 

Repairs '^^^  gg 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, r'^o/.  c-r 

^^        ,      ,     •                                                                                          .  5,486  67 

Officers  salaries, „„ 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    .        .  4^^  ^« 

Equipment  of  engine  room,  laundry,  and  refrigerating  plant,       .  1,15^  »i 

Stable  expenses, „„„  ^^ 

Bills  to  be  refunded, l'740  94 

New  furnishings  at  Watertown, '         ^^ 

Grading  and  spraying  at  Watertown 107  75 

Moving  to  Watertown, gg 

Sundry  expenses, „j  ^^ 

Maintaining  Tuning  Department, 30167  55 

Maintaining  Works  Department, ^ 

$114,648  52 

Less  discounts  allowed, ^ 

$114,473  65 


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ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND  OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Kindergarten. 

Meats  and  fish $2,098  66 

Milk  and  dairy  products, 3,777  52 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 911  88 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 540  52 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables, 1,201  93 

Ice 428  57 

Laundry 84  70 

Light,  heat,  and  power 9,021  86 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods, 653  94 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 243  78 

Salaries  and  wages, 23,765  30 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies, 33  66 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 263  75 

Expenses  on  property  let,    .        .                3,320  70 

Taxes  and  insurance, 963  60 

Repairs 643  98 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 532  87 

Officers'  salaries 4,863  66 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 491  72 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    ,        .  749  62 

Equipment  of  engine  room,  laundry,  and  refrigerating  plant,       .  821  10 

Stable  expenses Ill  93 

Bills  to  be  refunded, 613  88 

New  furnishings  at  Watertown, 1,443  82 

Grading  and  spraying  at  Watertown, 753  23 

Moving  to  Watertown 475  45 

$58,811  63 

Less  discounts  allowed, 61  52 

$58,750  11 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Kindergarten  September  1, 
1913:  — 


Book  Value. 
Building,  250-252  Purchase  St.,  ....  $76,800  00 
Building,  150-152  Boylston  St.,  ....      125,000  00 

BuUding,  379-385  Boylston  St 110,000  00 

Real  estate,  72  Wachusett  St.,  Forest  Hills  (sub- 
ject to  life  annuity) 7,600  00 

Seaverns  Avenue, 3,700  00 

$323,100  00 

Real  estate  used  by  the  Kindergarten 257,714  00 

Real  estate,  Watertown 517,586  18 

Stocks  and  Bonds. 

300  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       .  $25,600  00 

100  shares  Albany  Trust, 9,000  00 

300  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,    .  41,467  80 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     .        .  25,000  00 
4  shares  Central  Vermont  R.R., 


$5,000  Central  Vermont  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1920,  ' 

$100,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(C,  B.&  Q.),  joint  4s,  1921 91,000  00 

$23,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Illi- 
nois Division),  3  K  1949 20,000  00 

$20,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R. 

(Lake  Shore),  collateral  trust,  3Js,  1998,       .        .        18,000  00 

$75,000  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  4s,  1949,     .        73,000  00 

$30,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 28,000  00 

$60,000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

4s,  1955 55,000  00 

$5,000  Louisville  &  Jeffersonville  Bridge  Co.,  4s, 

1945, 4,500  00 

$15,000  Puget  Sound  Electric  Ry.,  1st  consoli- 
dated, 5s,  1932 14,000  00 

$25,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1931,     .        .       24,000  00 

$1,500  City  of  Salem,  4s,  1913-14 1,500  00 

$20,000  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.,  4s,  1926,  .        .        .        19,000  00 

$15,000  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  4^s,  1928,     .        .        .        15,000  00 

$20,000  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R., 

4^s,  1933, 20,000  00 

$20,000  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.,  3hs,  1926,     .        18,000  00 

$13,000  Chicago,  Burlington  «fe  Quincy  R.R.,  gen- 
eral mortgage,  4s,  1958,    .        .  12,500  00 

$65,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934,         .        63,500  00 

Amounts  carried  forward, $582,467  80  $1,098,400  18 


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Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward, S582,467  80  $1,098,400  18 

$65,000  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929, 57,850  00 

$20,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4|s,  1931,        19,163  05 

$25,000  Delaware  and  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding, 

4s,  1943 24,750  00 

$25,000  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Co.,  5%  notes, 

Jtily  1918 23,906  25 

$15,000  American  Coal  Product  Co.,  6%   notes, 

July  1,  1916, 14,625  00 

$10,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  5s,  October 

1963 10,233  00 

732,995  10 

Loans  receivable.  Institution 160,000  00 

Accounts  receivable, 1,957  05 

Petty  cash  funds, 150  00 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer $17,652  09 

Director  (overdrawn) 604  11 

$17,047  98 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 157  59 

17,205  57 

Music  Department. 

Sixteen  pianofortes, 4,150  00 

Miscellaneous. 

Household  furniture $14,771  40 

Provisions  and  supplies, 915  00 

15,686  40 

$2,030,544  30 


The  foregoing   property   represents   the  following   funds 
and  balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Kindergarten $678,746  23 

Mrs.  William  Appleton  fund, 13,000  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  fund, 500  00 

In  memory  of  William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,          .  1,000  00 

Miss  Helen  C.  Bradlee  fund, 140,000  00 

Mrs.  M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  fund,         .        .  11,000  00 

Amount  carried  forward $844,246  23 


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Amount  brought  forward $844,246  23 

Catherine  L.  Donnison  memorial  fund  (bequest  of 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Swan), 1,000  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Eliza  James  (Bell)  Draper,       .  1,500  00 

Mrs.  Helen  Atkins  Edmands  fund 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Eugenia  F.  Farnham  fund 1,015  00 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Fay  fund 15,000  00 

Albert  Glover  fund, 1,000  00 

In  memoriam  A.  A.  C 500  00 

Moses  Kimball  fund 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  fund, 9,000  00 

Mrs.  Emeline  Morse  Lane  fund,         ....  1,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Matthews  fund, 15,000  00 

Miss  Jeannie  Warren  Paine  fund 1,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman  fund 3,500  00 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Potter  fund, 30,000  00 

John  M.  Rodocanachi  fund 2,250  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch  fund 8,500  00 

Memorial  to  Frank  Davison  Rust,     ....  14,100  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  Taber  fund, 622  81 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund, 5,666  95 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales  fund 10,000  00 

In  memory  of  Ralph  Watson, 237  92 

Legacies:  — 

Emelie  Albee, $150  00 

Michael  Anagnos 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Wmiam  Appleton, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey, 500  00 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Miss  Mary  D.  Balfour, 100  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings, 10,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden 4,675  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  Bradford, 100  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

EUen  Sophia  Brown 1,000  00 

Miss  Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

Mrs.  AdeUne  M.  Chapin, 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 6,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  G.  Coburn, 9,980  10 

Charles  H.  Colburn,      .......  1,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge,         .......  45,138  16 


$971,138  91 


Amounts  carried  forward $287,810  48      $971,138  91 


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Amounts  brought  forward $287,810  48     $971,138  91 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis 300  00 

Miss  Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Miss  Susan  T.  Crosby, 100  00 

Miss  Caroline  T.  Downes 12,950  00 

George  E.  Downes, 3,000  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Dwight 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 1,000  00 

Miss  Mary  Eveleth 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Farwell 600  00 

John  Foster, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Gay 7,931  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 5,000  00 

Miss  Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Mrs.  Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Mrs.  Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 5,157  75 

Mrs.  Josephine  S.  Hall 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Hodges 300  00 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 2,360  67 

Mrs.  Marion  D.  Hollingsworth 1,000  00 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 

Mrs.  Maria  E.  Jones, 935  95 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Lambert 700  00 

WUliam  Litchfield, 5,000  00 

EUsha  T.  Loring, 5,000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson, 8,134  00 

Miss  Sarah  L.  Marsh 1,000  00 

Miss  Rebecca  S.  Melvin 23,545  55 

Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Abbie  NeweU 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1,000  00 

Miss  Anna  R.  Palfrey, 50  00 

Miss  Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Mrs.  Richard  Perkins, 10,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Phipps, 2,000  00 

Mrs.  CaroUne  S.  Pickman, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter, 395,014  44 

Francis  S.  Pratt 100  00 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

Miss  Dorothy  RofFe 500  00 

Miss  Rhoda  Rogers, 500  00 

Amounts  carried  forward, $945,02197       $971,138  91 


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Amounts  brought  forward $945,021  97     $971,138  91 

Miss  Edith  Rotch, 10,000  00 

Miss  Rebecca  Salisbury, 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Eliza  B.  Seymour, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish 5,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser  Fund 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer 2,000  00 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot, 630  00 

Mrs.  Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Deha  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Mrs.  Betsy  B.  Tolman 600  00 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Miss  Rebecca  P.  Wainwright 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 4,000  00 

Mrs.  Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,          .        .        .  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson, 100  00 

The  May  Rosevear  White  Fund 500  00 

Mary  Whitehead, 666  00 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Miss  Betsey  S.  WUder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Miss  Mary  W.  Wiley, 150  00 

Miss  Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Ahnira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 

1,057,840  78 

Accounts  payable, 1,564  61 

$2,030,544  30 


Donations,  Kindergaeten  Account. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K $10  00 

Brewster,  Miss  Sarah  C, 5  00 

Draper,  Mrs.  George  A., 50  00 

Duncan,  Mrs.  Samuel  W., 3  00 

Gardner,  George  A 50  00 

Hill,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,  by  C.  S.  HiU, 1  00 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,  in  memory  of  Alice  M.  C.  Matthews,  100  00 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Weymouth  and  Braintree,         ....  22  00 

White,  George  A., 25  00 

$266  00 


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CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.   Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer : — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,641  00 

Donations, 1^983  00 

Cambridge  Branch, 290  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 95  00 

Lynn  Branch, 55  00 

Milton  Branch, 43  00 

$5,107  00 


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ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Adelaide  F., 
Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo,    . 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H.,      . 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Ames,  Miss  Mary  S.,   . 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Anthony,  Mrs.  S.  Reed, 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 
Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 
Armstrong,  Mrs.  Geo.  W., 
Atkins,  Mrs.  Edwin  F., 
Ayer,  Mrs.  James  B.,  . 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 
Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Baker,  Miss  S.  P., 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 
Ballon,  Mrs.  M,  M.,    . 
Bangs,  Mrs.  Francis  R., 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  H., 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 
Bates,  Mrs.  I.  Chapman, 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R., 
Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 
Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Alanson, 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 
Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 


$5  00 
1  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 
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25  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $177  00 


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Amount  carried  forward,     .  $177  00 


Boynton,  Miss  Ella  F., 
Bradford,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  . 
Bradford,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,   . 
Brewer,  Mrs.  D.  C,     . 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S., 
Brown,  Miss  Augusta  M., 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Brown,  Mr.  C.  H.  C, 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James, 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred,     . 
Burnham,  Mrs.  John  A., 
Burr,  Mrs.  Allston, 
Burr,  Mrs.  I.  Tucker,  Jr., 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  ( 
Chase,  Dr.  H.  Lincoln, 
Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R., 
Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C, 
Clark,    Mr.    B.    Preston,    in 
memory    of    his    mother, 
Mrs.  B.  C.  Clark,     . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 
Clark,  Mrs.  John  Dudley,     . 
Clark,  Mrs.  John  T.,    . 


5  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

25  00 

10  00 

5  00 

20  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $384  00 


87 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $384  00 


Clark,  Miss  Sarah  W., 
Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen, 
Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F.. 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Darius, 
Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex., 
Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory,    . 
Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 
Congdon,  Mrs.  A.  L.,  . 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 
Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E.,     . 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Covel,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Cox,  Mrs.  William  E., 
Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 
Crane,  Mr.  Zenas, 
Crehore,  Mrs.  G.  C,    . 
Cumings,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  . 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 
Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 
Curtis,  Mrs.  James  F., 
Curtis,  Miss  M.  G., 
Curtis,  Mr.  William  O., 
Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W., 
Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  George  C, 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben, 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 
Day,  Mr.  Frank  A., 
Day,  Mrs.  Lewis, 
DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  R.,    . 
Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 
Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket,    . 
Dixon,  Mrs.  Lewis  S., 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A., 
DuBois,  Mrs.  L.  G.,     . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Eager,  Mrs.  George  H., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $729  00 


.   10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

,   25  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   60  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   50  00 

5  00 

6  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

10  00 

3  GO 

.   10  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $729  00 


Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 
Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 
Elms,  Mrs.  Florence  G., 
Elms,  Mrs.  James  C,  . 
Emery,  Mrs.  Mark, 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  William  C, 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,   . 
F.,      . 

Fairbanks,  Mrs.  Charles  F. 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B., 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,     . 
Flint,  Mrs.  D.  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Foster,  Mrs.  Anna  S., 
Fottler,  Mrs.  Jacob,     . 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel,     . 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,  . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gardner,  Mrs.  J.  L.,     . 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert, 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Joseph  T., 
Gill,  Mr.  Abbott  D.,    . 
Goldthwait,  Mrs.  Joel, 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,    . 
Gorham,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Grandin,  Mrs.  J.  L.,     . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H. 
Grant,  Mrs.  Robert,     . 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,  . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F.,     . 
Greenleaf,  Mrs.  Lyman  B., 
Guild,  Miss  Harriet  J., 
Gunsenhiser,  Mrs.  A., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Mrs.  F.  B., 


5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

20  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


25  00 

1  00 

10  00 

20  00 

10  00 

5  OC 

5  00 

5  00 

25  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,009  00 


88 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,009  00 


Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L., 
Hartley,  Mrs.  Harry,  . 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G., 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Charles  P 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,  . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,    . 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G. 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,   . 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,  . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howe,  Mr.  George  E., 
Howe,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Hudson,  Mrs.  John  E., 
Hunneman,  Miss  E.  A., 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Hyde,  Mrs.  Thomas  W., 
Jacobs,   Mrs.   Fred  W.   (for 

1912),      . 
Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 
Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 
Johnson,  Miss  Fannie  L., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D., 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S.,    . 
Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 
Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M  ., 
King,  Mrs.  S.  G., 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Klous,  Mr.  Isaac, 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 
Larkin,  The  Misses, 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George  C,    . 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L.., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C,   . 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1 ,488  00 


2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

,   10  00 

2  00 

.   15  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.   15  00 

,   10  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

10  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

.   10  00 

50  00 

3  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.  100  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,488  00 


Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K, 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S., 
Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,  . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Mack,  Mrs.  Thomas,    . 
Mansfield,*  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Mason,  Mrs.  Fanny  P., 
McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,     . 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T., 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morrison,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Morse,  Mrs.  Henry  Lee, 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  . 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 
Morss,  Mrs.  Anthony  S., 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,  . 
Neibuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,     . 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr., 
North,  Mrs.  James  N., 
Noyes,  Mrs.  G.  D., 
Orcutt,  Mrs.  W.  D.,     . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  William  D., 
Palfrey,  Mrs.  John  C, 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 
Perry,  Mrs.  Claribel  N., 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 
Pope,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr., 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M 
Proctor,  Mrs.  H.  H.,    . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,840  00 


5  00 

,   50  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

3  00 

.   50  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

15  00 

5  00 

,   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

89 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,840  00  Amount  brought  forward,    $2,179  00 


Putnam,  Miss  Georgina  L.,  . 

5  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

6  00 

Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A., 

3  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

6  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A., 

6  00 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Henry  E., 

3  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

5  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  William  Howell 

20  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  David  (for  19  IS- 

IS), 

45  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  William  B., 

5  00 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 

10  00 

Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 

10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  . 

2  00 

Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E., 

10  00 

Robbing,  Mrs.  Reginald  L., 

2  00 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal,  . 

10  00 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 

1  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C., 

6  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K.,     . 

5  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 

5  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  L.,   . 

1  00 

Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 

3  00 

Russell,  Mrs.  EUiott,    . 

3  00 

Rust,  Mrs.  N.  J., 

2  00 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,      . 

4  00 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 

in  memory  of  his  mother 

Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 

10  00 

Sampson,  Miss  H.  H., 

1  00 

Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 

2  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,    . 

10  00 

Scammon,    The    Misses,    ir 

I 

memory  of  their  mother 

10  00 

Schonler,  Mr.  James,   . 

5  00 

Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem 

ory   of  her  mother,    Mrs 

N.  M.  Downer, 

5  00 

Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 

10  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Frederic  R., 

.       25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Herbert  M., 

25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 

25  00 

Severence,  Mrs.  Pierre  C, 

3  00 

Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 

5  00 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland, 

10  00 

Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 

2  00 

Shaw,  Mrs.  Robert  Gould, 

10  00 

Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 

5  00 

Sherman,  Mrs.  George  M., 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     $2,179  00 


Sherman,  Mrs.  William  H., 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S., 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Sprague,  Miss  Mary  C, 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D., 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Steese,  Mrs.  Edward,  . 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil,     . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Frederic,  . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis,     . 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Talbot,  Miss  Leslie, 
Talbot,  Miss  Marjorie, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Tappan,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  E., 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C, 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Alden  A., 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S., 
Twombly,  Mrs.  J.  F., 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee, 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H., 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge, 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A., 
Wead,  Mrs.  Leslie  C, 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


20  00 
3  00 
5  00 
3  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

10  00 

15  00 


00 
GO 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
GO 
00 


15  00 
10  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
10  00 

2  00 
25  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 

2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,470  00 


90 


Amount  brought  forward,    $2, 


Webster,  Mrs.  Edwin  S., 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Davis,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor, 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Whitwell,  Mrs.  Frederick  A, 
Williams,  The  Misses, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $2 


470 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

,557  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $2,557  00 


Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Harriet  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses, 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,   . 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S. 
Wright,  Mrs.  J.  G.,      . 
Wright,  Mrs.  L.  A.,      . 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 
Young,  Miss  Lucy  F., 


.   10 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.   20 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

$2,641  00 

DONATIONS. 


A  friend,     . 
A  friend,     . 
Adams,  Mr.  George,     . 
Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas,    . 
Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  . 
Bartlett,  The  Misses,   . 
Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot, 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Bowditch,  Mrs.  Alfred, 
Bowditch,  Mr.  Vincent  Y., 
Bradt,   Mrs.   Julia  A.,   (for 

1912-13), 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon, 
Bullard,  Mrs.  Wm.  S., 
BuUens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Caryl,  Miss  Harriet  E., 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,  . 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Cheney,  Mr.  Charles  W., 


$100  00 
2  00 

1  00 
5  00 
5  00 

25  00 
10  00 
5  00 
25  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 

3  00 
2  00 
5  00 
5  00 

1  00 
15  00 

2  00 
10  00 

1  00 

3  00 
50  00 

2  00 
25  00 

5  00 
10  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $349  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .   $349  00 


Chesson,  Mr.  Harold,  . 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C, 
Collamore,  Miss  Helen, 
Converse,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 
Crane,  Mrs.  Z.  Marshal, 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R., 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A, 
Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  L.,    . 
Devlin,  Mr.  John  E.,   . 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 
Famsworth,  Mrs.  C.  F., 
Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B., 
French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 
French,  Mr.  Wilfred  A., 
Giddings,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  . 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R., 


50  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  OO' 

10  00 

25  00 

10  00 

75  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

3  00 

25  00 

3  00 

5  00 
10  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 
10  00 

6  00 
5  00 
5  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $675  00 


91 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $675  00  Amount  brought  forward,    31,131  00 


Pratt,  Mr.  Robert  M., 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,  . 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H.,     . 
Raymond,  Fairfield  Eager, 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H.,    . 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell, 
Rhodes,  Miss  Florence  R., 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W., 
Richardson,  Mr.  C.  F., 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Richardson,  Mr.  Spencer  W, 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederic  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,  . 
Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,    . 
Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A.,     . 

S.,  Mrs 

Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sherburne,  Mrs.  F.  S., 
Silsbee,  Mrs.  G.  S.,       . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  William, 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
SneUing,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Soren,  Mr.  John  H.,     . 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Swift,  Mrs.  E.  C, 
Tapley,  Mrs.  Amos  P., 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Thayer,  Mrs.  William  G., 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tolman,  Mr.  James  P., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Turner,  Miss  Abby  W., 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W., 
Watson,  Miss  Abby  L., 
Watson,  Mrs.  R.  C.,    . 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,    . 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Weld,  Rev.  G.  F., 
Wesson,  Miss  Isabel,    . 


Amount  carried  forward,     SI, 844  00 


Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 

5  00 

Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F.,     . 

5  00 

Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S., 

25  00 

Griggs,  Mrs.  Thomas  B., 

2  00 

Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,    . 

10  00 

Hardy,  Mrs.  A.  H.,      . 

5  00 

Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 

2  00 

Haven,  Mrs.  Franklin, 

5  00 

Hazelton,  Mr.  0.  B.  R., 

10  00 

Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel, 

5  00 

Hill,  Mrs.  Lew  C., 

5  00 

Homans,  Mrs.  John,     . 

10  00 

Howe,  Miss  Harriet  A., 

5  00 

Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C., 

5  00 

Hubbard,  Mrs  Eliot,    . 

10  00 

Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 

50  00 

Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis, 

2  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harrie 

L.    Thayer    through   Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown,   . 

5  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C., 

25  00 

JoUiffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 

5  00 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  . 

10  00 

Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N.,       . 

10  00 

Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

10  00 

Lawrence,  Mr.  Charles  R., 

5  00 

Lins,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 

2  00 

Loring,  The  Misses, 

30  00 

Loring,  Mrs.  Augustus  P., 

10  00 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 

5  00 

Magee,  Mr,  John   L.,  . 

10  00 

Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,     . 

25  00 

Manning,  Miss  A.  F., 

10  00 

Marsh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M., 

2  00 

Means,  Mrs.  W.  A.,      . 

10  00 

Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 

10  00 

Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H.,    . 

5  00 

Moore,  Mrs.  Henry  F., 

2  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 

5  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,  . 

20  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 

25  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Fanny  E., 

20  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 

2  00 

Newell,  Mrs.  J.  W.,      . 

2  00 

Peabody,  Mr.  Harold, 

10  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 

2  00 

Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,    . 

5  00 

Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,  . 

3  00 

Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr., 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     $1,131  00 


.     100  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

4  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       50  00 

3  00 

.       20  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       20  00 

.     200  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.       25  00 

.       10  00 

.       20  00 

.       25  00 

3  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

92 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1 ,844  00 


Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C,    . 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  A.  S.,     . 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitman,  Mr.  James  H., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Whitney,  Miss  Mary,  . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 


Amount  carried  forward,     $1,926  00 


.   10 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

.   20 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

25  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    $1,926  00 


Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  . 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis, 


5  00 
25  00 

5  00 

2  00 
15  00 

5  00 


$1,983  00 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


$3  00 
10  00 

10  00 
1  00 

10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


Abbott,  Mrs.  Edward, 
Abbott,  Mrs.  Edwin  H., 
Agassiz,    Mr.     Max     (dona 

tion),      ... 
Aldrich,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona 

tion), 
Batchelder,  Miss  Isabel, 
Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Brewster,  Mrs.  William, 
Brooks,  Miss  Martha  W., 
Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 
Carstein,  Mrs.  H.  L.,  . 
Gary,  Miss  Emma  F.  (dona- 
tion for  1912-1,3),     . 
Dana,  Mrs.  R.  H.  (donation), 
Davis,    Mrs.  W.    M.    (dona- 
tion), 
Deane,  Mrs.  Walter,    . 
Durant,  Mrs.  W.  B.,    . 
Ela,  Mrs.  Walter  (donation 

for  1912), 
Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B.  (for 
1912-13), 

(donation  for  1912-13), 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Frank  I.  (dona- 
tion), 
Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.  (dona- 
tion),      ... 
Fish,  Mrs.  F.  P.  (donation) 
Folsom,  Mrs.  Norton, 
Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C, 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno,    . 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Glover,  Mrs.  H.  R.,      . 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $152  00 


6  00 
5  00 

2  00 

2  00 
1  00 

5  00 

6  00 
4  00 

3  00 


5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

50 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $152  00 


Goodwin,  Miss  Amelia  M., 
Green,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Harris,   Miss  C.   M.   (dona 

tion), 
Hayward,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

(donation), 
Hopkinson,  Mrs.  J.  P., 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,  . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P., 
Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 
Neal,    Mrs.    W.    H.    (dona 

tion),     .... 
Nichols,  Mrs.  J.  T.  G., 
Palfrey,   Miss  S.  H.   (dona 

tion), 
Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin, 
Richards,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Riddle,  Miss  C.  C.  (for  1912- 

13), 
Roberts,  Mrs.  C.  S., 
Sargent,  Mr.  D.  A., 
Saville,  Mrs.  H.  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  E.  M., 
Thayer,  Mrs.  James  B.  (do 

nation),  . 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Tilton,  Mrs.  H.  N., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  R.  N.  (dona- 
tion). 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $266  00 


5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

.  $266  00 

93 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $266  00 

Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter,     .         2  00 
White,  Mrs.  M.  P.,       .  .5  00 

Wbittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W.,      .         5  00 
Williston,  Mrs.  L.  R.  (dona- 
tion),      .  .  .  .         6  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $283  00 


Amxmnt  brought  forward,    .  $283  00 


Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


5  00 
2  00 


$290  00 


DORCHESTER    BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  S.  E.,    . 
Bird,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do- 
nation), . 
Burditt,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S. 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  . 

(donation), 
Copeland,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Cushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Christopher  R., 
Faunee,  Mrs.  Sewell  A., 
Hall,  Miss  Adelaide,     . 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L.,     . 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A., 
Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K., 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C,  . 
Pierce,   Miss  Henrietta  (do- 
nation), ... 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $37  00 


.    $1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $37  00 


Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do 

nation),  . 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Robinson,  Miss  Anna  B., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Smith,  Miss  Harriett  J., 
Soule,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  P., 
Steams,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  In  mem- 
ory of,     . 
Stearns,  Miss  Katherine, 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Frederic  P., 
Torrey,  Mrs.  Elbridge  (dona 

tion), 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S., 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,     . 
Wood,  Mrs.  Wm.  A.,   . 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


2 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

4  00 

.   25 

00 

2  00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5  00 

$95  00 


LYNN   BRANCH. 


K 


$2  00 


Averill,  Miss  M.  J., 
Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L 

(donation) , 
Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F., 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A., 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,  . 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J 
Hollis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $34  00 


.   10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $34  00 


Page,  Miss  E.  D., 

1  00 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 

10  00 

Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B., 

5  00 

Thomson,  Mr.  Elihu  (dona- 

tion),  .... 

5  00 

$55  00 


94 


Clarke,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes, 
Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B., 
Cunningham,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Gilmore,  Miss  Mary  E., 
Jaques,  Mrs.  Francis,  . 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 


MILTON 

BRANCH. 

$1  00 

Amount  brought  forward, 

$34  00 

1  00 

4  00 

Morse,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.  (do- 

.      10  00 

nation),  . 

1  00 

2  00 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 

2  00 

5  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Stephen  A., 

1  00 

10  00 

(donation) , 

4  00 

1  00 

Wadsworth,  Mrs.  E.  D., 

1  00 

.     $34  00 

$43  00 

All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse 
the  above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  William  Endicott,  Jr., 
Treasurer,  No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director, 
Edwaed  E.  Allen,  Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which 
they  may  find  in  it. 

WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Jr.,  Treasurer. 

No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 


95 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  eor  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 
follows : 

Mr.  WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Jr., 

No.   115  Devonshire  Street, 

Boston,  riass. 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


ElOHTV-THIRD  ANNUAL  REPORT 
OP  THE  TRUSTEES 


1914 


BOSTON     Jt     ^     ,^     Ji     ^    1915 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


(2^i|0  CUmtmuimtt^altl;  of  Mnsmtl^eBttsL 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  fob  the  Blind, 
Wateetown,  October  21,  1914. 

To  the  Hon.  Frank  J.  Donahue,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-third  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


Sxtl 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION, 

1914-1916. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOAED   OF  TRUSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 
FRANCIS   HENRY  APPLETON. 
WALTER  CABOT   BAYLIES. 
THOMAS   B.  FITZPATRICK. 
Rbv.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 
ROBERT   H.  HALLO  WELL. 


JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON.  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 
ALBERT   THORNDIKE. 


STANDING     COMMITTEES. 

Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 

1915. 
Walter  Cabot  Batlies. 
Annette  P.   Rogers. 
George  H.  Richards. 
William   L.   Richardson. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 
Albert  Thorndikd. 


1915. 

January,  . 

.    Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

July,  .     .     . 

February, 

.    Mrs.  George  Angieb. 

August,    . 

March,     . 

.    Robert  H.  Hallowbll. 

September,    . 

April, 

.    Paul  R.  Frothinqham. 

October,  . 

May,  . 

.    James   A.    Lowell. 

November,    . 

June,  . 

.    Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick. 

December, 

Conunittee  on  Education. 

George  H.  Richards. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  George  Anoier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Albert  Thobndikb. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

Robert  H.  Hallowbll. 

Albert  Thorndike. 


OFFICERS   OF   ADMINISTRATION   AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS   AND    OFFICERS    AT   THE    UPPER   SCHOOL. 
LITEBABY  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 
HAROLD   MOLTER. 
Miss  CAJIOLINE  E.   McMASTER. 
Miss  JULIA  A.  BOYLAN. 
Miss  JESSICA  L.  LANG  WORTHY. 
ARTHUR  E.  HOLMES. 
Miss  LIZZIE   R.  KINSMAN. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 


Oirls'  Section. 
Miss  GRACE   B.  BICKNELL. 
Mrs.  vera   M.  LOCKE. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 
Miss  ABBIE   G.  POTTLE. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  GRACE  E.  PORTER. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TBAININQ. 

THOMAS   H.  HINES.  |   Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 

Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 

EDWIN   L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 
Miss  JANE   M.  BACON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL   A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MANUAL  TBAININQ. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN   H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY   B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss    FRANCES    M.    LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  LAURA  A.  BROWN. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  TUNING  PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,  CLERKS  AND  BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  LOUISE  P.  HUNT,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA   GARDNER   FISH,  Clerk. 


Miss  JENNIE  L.  TWITCHELL,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI  L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


Mrs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,   Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD  B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE.  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC   DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK   A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  in  the  Cottages. 
Boys'  Section. 

Miss  CLARISSA   A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  FRANCES   E.  CARLTON. 
Miss  FLORA   C.  FOUNTAIN. 
Miss  N.  GRACE   BENTLEY. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  M.  a.  KNOWLTON. 
Mrs.  CORA   L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  S.  ELIZABETH  SCHOULER. 
Miss  FLORENCE   E.  STOWE. 


PRINTING  DEPARTMENT. 

DENNIS  A.   REARDON,  Manager.  I   Mrs.  MARTHA  A.  TITUS,  Printer. 

Mrs.    ELIZABETH   S.    REARDON.  I   Miss  MARY  L.  TULLY,  Printer. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Operator  of  Stereotypemaker. 


WORKSHOP  FOR  ADULTS. 

EUGENE   C.  HOWARD,  Manager  Emeritus. 
FRANK   C.   BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  B.  G.  LINCOLN.  Clerk. 


TEACHERS    AND    OFFICERS    AT    THE    LOWER    SCHOOL. 

KINDERGABTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 

Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 
Miss  Laura  S.  Sterling,  Assistant. 
Miss  Edphemia  D.  Christie,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 
Miss  Irma  a.  Perkins,  Assistant. 


Girls'  Section. 

Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Assistant. 

Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 

Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 

Miss  Helen  M.  Hinolf,  Music   Teacher. 


Miss  Annie  L.  F.  Edwards,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 
Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinbbton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 


PRIMABY  DEPABTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Angie  L.  Tabbell,  Teacher. 


Miss  Effie  C  Saunders,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  SiGRiD  Sjolandeb,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bebtha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  Winifred  Wurtble,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Grinq,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberq,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING  COMMITTEE  TO   THE  KINDEBGABTEN. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 


John  Lawrence, 
Louis  Bacon, 
Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Joseph  Warren, 
Wm.  a.  Lawrence,  . 

Wm.  R.  LrVEBMOBE, 

William  James, 
Ellen  Bullabd, 


^  January. 
>  February. 

March. 


Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,    . 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker, 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  . 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,        .      . 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent, 


April. 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Honorary  Member. 
Mrs.  KiNGSMiLL  Marrs,  Honorary  Member. 
Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  Honorary  Member. 


May. 
June. 
September. 
October. 

!  November. 
December. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  O.,  Boston. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Appleton,   Hon.   Francis   Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Mrs.    Francis   Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston. 
Appleton,    Mrs.    Francis   Henry, 

Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  Boston. 
Bacon,     Caspar     C,     Jamaica 

Plain. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 
Baldwin,    S.    E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  F.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Beebe,  J.  Arthur,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 
York. 


Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  O.,  Providence. 

Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 

Bowditch,  Ingersoll,  Boston. 

Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Rev.  G.  W.,  Dorchester. 

Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Mrs.  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Browne,  A,  Parker,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullard,  Mrs.  William  S.,  Boston. 

Bullock,  George  A.,  Worcester. 

Burnham,  Miss  JuUa  E.,  Lowell. 

Burnham,  WiUiam  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  T.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Boston. 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.,  Newton. 
Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 
Callender,  Walter,  Providence. 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 
Gary,  Miss  E.  F.,  Cambridge. 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 
Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 
Chace,  Hon.  J.,  VaUey  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chace,  J.  H.,  VaUey  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 
Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston, 
Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 
Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 
Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 


Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 
CooUdge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 
CooUdge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 
Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 
Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookhne. 
Crosby,  WiUiam  S.,  Brookhne. 
Cunningham,    Mrs.    Henry    V., 

Grove  Hall. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  Boston. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 
Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 
Gushing,  Livingston,  Boston. 
Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 
Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 
Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L.,  Boston. 
Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 
Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 
Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 
Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 
Ehot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 
EUiott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston, 
EUis,  George  H.,  Boston. 
Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 
Endicott,  Wilham,  Boston. 
Endicott,  Wilham  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 
Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 
Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover. 
Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 
Ferris,  Miss  Mary  E.,  Brookhne. 
Fields,  Mrs.  James  T.,  Boston. 
Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  Boston. 


Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
hne. 

Foster,  Miss  C.  P.,  Cambridge. 

Foster,  Mrs.  E.  W,,  Hartford, 
Conn. 

Foster,  Francis  C,  Cambridge. 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Ghdden,  W.  T.,  Brookhne. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

HaU,  Mrs.  F.  Howe,  New  York. 

Hall,  Miss  Laura  E.,  Boston. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Hanscom,  Dr.  Sanford,  Somer- 
ville. 


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Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  C.  P.,  Boston. 

Hersey,  Charles  H.,  Boston, 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

HiU,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 

Hogg,  John,  Boston. 

Hollis,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  Lynn. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brook- 
line. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 

James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Jones,  Mrs.  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kent,  Mrs.  Helena  M.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 

Kilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer- 
ville. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 


King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Wm.  Appleton,  Boston. 

Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 

Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence. 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Lyman,  Arthur  T.,  Boston. 

Lyman,  John  P.,  Boston. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  E.  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

Mason,  L  B.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Matthews,  Mrs.  A.  B.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 


Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Minot,  William,  Boston. 
Mixter,  Miss  M.  C,  Boston. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,   Mrs.   Eustis   P.,   Saco, 

Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,    Miss    M.    F.,    Jamaica 

Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 
Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr.,  Boston. 
OUver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston, 
Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston, 
Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 
Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 
Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 
Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 
Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston, 
Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Quimby,  Mrs.  A.  K.,  Boston, 
Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 
Reardon,  Dennis  A.,  Watertown. 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton, 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 
Richards,  Miss  EUse,  Boston, 


Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richardson,  John,  Boston. 

Richardson,   Miss   M.    G.,   New 
York. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L,,  M.D.,  Boston, 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A,  W,,  Newton, 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown, 

Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston, 

Rogers,    Miss    Flora    E.,    New 
York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston, 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Rowan,  Alfred  J.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W,  A,,  Mattapan. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G,  K.,  Brookhne. 

Saltonstall,    Leverett,    Chestnut 
Hill. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  Concord. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Pittsfield, 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knj'^^et  W.,  Boston. 

Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Hem-y  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Spencer,  Henry  F.,  Boston. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 


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Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Ezra  R.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 

Turner,  Miss  A.  W.,  Randolph. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Ware,  Miss  M.  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W.,  Boston. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 


Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Wejmiouth. 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Weymouth. 
Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 
West,  George  S.,  Boston. 
Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Wheelwright,    Mrs.    Andrew   C., 

Boston. 
Wheelwright,  John  W.,  Boston. 
White,  C.  J.,  Cambridge. 
White,  Mrs.  Charles  T.,  Boston. 
White,  George  A.,  Boston. 
Whitney,  Miss  Anne,  Boston 
Whitney,  Henry  M.,  BrookUne. 
Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 
WiUiams,    Mrs.    H.    C,    South 

Framingham. 
Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 
Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence. 
Winthrop,     Mrs.    Thomas      L., 

Boston. 
Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Boston. 
Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 

OF  THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Watertown,  October  14,  1914. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are 
hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  oflBcers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  William  Endicott. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

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Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  Robert  H.  Hallowell,  James  A. 
Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  Richard  M.  Saltonstall,  and 
Albert  Thorndike. 

Mrs.  Frederick  A.  Washburn  was  unanimously  elected  a 
member  of  the  corporation. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  14,  1914. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  Two  features  stand 
out  prominently  for  report  at  this  time:  the  success 
of  the  first  year  of  the  kindergarten  in  its  new  build- 
ings, and  the  publicity  which  has  enriched  the  use- 
fulness of  the  institution.  Both  form  a  matter  for 
encouragement  and  convince  your  Board  how  wisely 
they  have  been  enabled  to  rebuild  and  reconstruct. 

Compared  with  the  vast  task  of  moving  and  set- 
tling the  upper  school,  that  of  transferring  the  kin- 
dergarten was  simple  indeed.  The  former  was  not 
only  the  removal  of  the  accumulation  of  three  quar- 
ters of  a  century  but  was  truly  a  reconstruction  of 
the  institution;  the  latter  was  the  transfer  of  four 
large  but  separate  households  from  old  houses  to 
new  and,  besides,  was  carried  out  leisurely  and  after 
all  building  operations  at  the  new  plant  were  over. 
Matrons,  teachers  and  their  helpers  packed  every- 
thing after  closing  school  in  June,  saw  to  the  bringing 
of  certain  material  then,  and  planned  the  later  dis- 

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tribution  of  the  rest.  When  the  matrons  reappeared 
in  September,  they  found  the  old  household  furni- 
ture and  school  materials  awaiting  them,  and  within 
the  fortnight  before  the  return  of  the  children  had 
everything  in  readiness  for  the  opening  of  school. 
Matters  continued  to  move  with  comparative  smooth- 
ness from  the  first,  the  arrangements  of  the  new 
school-homes  proving  themselves  excellent,  and  the 
good  health  and  spirits  of  everybody  continuing 
equally  so.  The  whole  year  may  be  reported  as  one 
worthy  of  congratulation. 

While  in  the  case  of  the  upper  school  the  pupils 
pass  daily  from  their  eight  dwellings  across  yards  to 
their  school  building,  in  that  of  the  kindergarten  or 
lower  school  the  four  separate  households  have  each 
its  own  distinct  classrooms  as  part  of  its  building. 
This  plan  was  continued  from  Jamaica  Plain  where  it 
had  demonstrated  its  serviceability  when  any  case  of 
children's  contagious  disease  appeared.  Moreover, 
such  a  plan  is  really  ideal,  serving  as  it  does  to  co-or- 
dinate school  and  home,  where  it  is  important  for  the 
motherly  matron  to  maintain  a  watchful  oversight 
over  all.  In  the  two  families  for  the  smallest  chil- 
dren a  ''quiet"  room  for  an  ailing  child  is  a  part  of 
the  matron's  suite;  and  near  the  assistant  matron's 
bedroom  in  all  four  famihes  there  is  a  nursery  suite 
for  one  or  two  temporarily  sick  children,  having  a 
sick  room,  a  nurse's  room  and  a  bath  room  and  being 
connected  with  the  kitchen  by  a  dumb  waiter  and 
with  the  grounds  by  a  staircase  never  used  by  other 

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pupils  or  teachers.  Two  of  these  suites  have  even 
been  used  this  first  year,  —  the  one  temporarily  for  a 
case  of  typhoid  fever,  developed  in  a  new  pupil,  who 
was  promptly  removed  to  a  hospital,  the  other  for 
tonsilar  and  adenoid  operations  on  several  of  our 
little  new  children,  at  which  time  district  nurses 
were  called  in  to  assist  the  surgeon. 

The  houses  of  this  lower  school,  known  severally 
as  Julia  Anagnos,  Bradlee,  Potter,  and  Glover  build- 
ings, are  under  one  roof  and  enclose  Anagnos  Court, 
which  is  quadrangular  and  very  large.  Covered 
cloister  walks,  open  to  the  court,  form  the  only  pas- 
sage from  one  house  to  another,  and  to  the  four  cov- 
ered play-cloisters  which  also  open  upon  the  play- 
grounds. 

The  capacity  of  the  lower  school  is  132  children, 
and  if  congregate  in  plan  would  be  in  itself  no  small 
boarding  school. 

The  magnificent  tower  of  the  Perkins  Institution, 
seen  as  it  is  from  far  and  near  and  not  least  from  the 
hundreds  of  trains  passing  by  on  the  Boston  and 
Albany  Railroad,  is  a  veritable  flag  to  the  public, 
having  doubtless  attracted  many  to  visit  the  institu- 
tion and  led  many  more  to  inquire  about  it.  Not  so 
very  many  visitors  came  our  first  year  here,  but  this 
past  year  they  have  come  as  never  before  in  all  our 
long  history.  They  have  been  invited,  because  the 
informing  of  the  people  about  the  institution  is  a 
function  of  it  only  second  in  importance  to  the  edu- 
cation of  the  blind  itself.     Indeed,  in  proportion  as 

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the  public  can  be  influenced  to  employ  the  blind 
after  leaving  school  is  their  education  vocationally 
serviceable  to  them.  Again,  public  interest  and 
visits  are  inspirational  to  officers  and  pupils  alike.  In 
short,  the  institution  must  be  in  the  public  eye,  must 
exert  itself  to  keep  there.  Visitors  are  welcome, 
therefore,  at  any  time  when  school  is  in  session,  from 
September  to  June  inclusive,  weekdays,  between  8  a.m. 
and  5  p.m.  and  even  on  Saturdays  to  noon.  There 
is  a  visitors'  attendant  to  take  them  about.  Proper 
visiting  causes  no  interruption  of  the  classes.  No  day 
passes  without  visitors.  But,  while  only  a  few  hun- 
dreds have  dropped  in,  at  least  3,600  have  attended 
special  functions  during  the  year.  These  were  the 
singing  of  Christmas  carols  by  the  school  choir,  mid- 
winter concert,  Washington's  Birthday  exhibition, 
several  special  exhibitions  given  to  clubs  or  classes  of 
students  or  to  social  workers,  the  boys'  dramatics, 
when  800  came,  the  closing  exercises  of  the  term,  and 
the  formal  opening  of  the  institution.  This  opening, 
which  was  on  June  4,  was  fine  in  every  way.  The 
addresses  were  on  a  high  plane,  and  the  school  rose 
to  its  best  in  its  part  of  the  program. 

The  Washington's  Birthday  exhibition  was  an  in- 
spection of  the  whole  plant,  —  the  cottages,  a  work- 
ing exhibit  of  the  schools,  classes  in  each  department, 
including  exercises  in  manual  training,  gymnastic 
games,  swimming,  dancing,  piano  tuning  and  choir 
singing.  This  sort  of  exhibition  was  repeated  several 
times  to  groups  of  people  specially  interested,  notably 

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the  New  England  Women's  Club,  and  to  our  guests 
at  the  formal  opening.  Our  large  central  museum  we 
have  discovered  to  be  a  much  more  convenient  and 
effective  place  for  working  exhibits  of  all  departments 
than  the  several  classrooms  themselves. 

While  these  occasions  have  not  been  utilized  for 
caUing  attention  to  the  needs  of  the  institution,  it  is 
nevertheless  true,  as  our  treasurer  frequently  makes 
known  to  us,  that  the  Perkins  Institution  is  greatly 
poorer  in  interest-bearing  funds  than  it  was  prior  to 
its  rebuilding  and,  in  fact,  urgently  needs  accessions 
to  them.  The  main  requisites  are  for  current  ex- 
penses, and  donors  are  requested  to  give  without  re- 
striction as  to  use.  But  there  are  other  needs,  —  a 
pipe  organ  for  the  choir  hall,  a  stable,  and  particu- 
larly a  fence  enclosing  the  estate.  As  it  is  now  the 
grounds  are  overrun  at  times  by  street  boys  who  wish 
to  use  our  children's  play  apparatus  and  rifle  our 
orchards  of  their  fruit.  In  fact,  certain  pieces  of  our 
old  playground  appliances  are  kept  in  storage  pend- 
ing the  time  when  we  can  afford  to  build  the  fence. 
The  architect  has  plans  for  a  simple  protecting  bar- 
rier. WiU  not  our  friends  contribute  sections  of  it, 
just  as  sections  have  been  given  to  enclose  the  yard 
of  Harvard  College? 

At  the  back  of  the  choir  practice  and  morning 
assembly  room  is  an  open  space  for  a  small  pipe 
organ.  The  mechanism  for  electrically  connecting 
this  with  a  console  on  the  floor  has  already  been  in- 
stalled.   If  some  friend  wished  to  present  this  organ 

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as  a  memorial  it  would  be  a  great  boon  and  joy  to  the 
school.  Our  young  organists  could  then  have  daily 
practice  in  playing  for  concerted  singing.  Much  of 
our  devotional  music  needs  more  support  than  the 
piano  which  we  now  have.  It  is  an  interesting  fact 
that  all  afternoon  visitors  drop  in  to  listen  to  the 
choir  practice,  which  has  become  a  very  delightful 
feature  of  the  school  life. 

In  addition  to  the  above-mentioned  publicity 
given  the  institution,  the  director  and  members  of 
his  staff  have  by  lecture  and  demonstration  ac- 
quainted a  number  of  outside  audiences  with  the 
workings  of  the  school,  —  such  as  library  classes  at 
Simmons  College,  and  classes  in  education  at  Welles- 
ley  College.  Both  these  classes  and  bodies  of  pro- 
fessors and  students  from  Wheaton  CoUege  and  from 
the  Boston  School  of  Social  Workers  have  visited  the 
institution.  Several  admirable  articles,  descriptive 
of  the  new  plant  and  interpretive  of  its  spirit  have 
appeared  in  papers  and  magazines.  The  director 
has  contributed  to  Nelson's  Encyclopedia  the  cur- 
rent article  on  the  Education  of  the  Blind  and  to 
the  annual  report  of  the  Bureau  of  Education  a 
review  of  the  progress  in  the  education  of  the  blind 
made  in  the  United  States  within  the  school  year 
1912-1913.  No  American  paper  on  a  similar  subject 
had  appeared  in  this  publication  since  Dr.  Howe's 
contribution  in  1873. 

Last  July  there  was  held  at  the  State  Normal 
School,  Framingham,  Mass.,  a  special  reunion  of  its 

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alumnae,  at  which  exhibits  were  made.  One  of  these 
showed  the  connection  of  that  school  with  the  Per- 
kins Institution,  e.g.,  that  28  graduates  and  special 
students  of  Framingham  have  taught  at  Perkins, 
from  Lady  Campbell  in  1841  to  Miss  Grace  E.  Porter, 
the  present  instructor  in  housework;  and  that  the 
following  special  movements  in  behalf  of  the  blind 
have  been  furthered  by  graduates  of  that  school: 
The  Education  of  the  Deaf  and  Blind;  The  Per- 
kins Alumnae  Association,  The  Massachusetts  State 
Home  Teaching,  The  Memorial  Home  at  Worcester, 
and  The  Committee  for  the  Blind  of  the  New 
Bedford  Woman's  Club. 

The  kindergartners  of  the  institution  have  been 
making  more  and  more  use  of  some  of  the  Montes- 
sori  didactic  materials  bought  for  them  but  much  of 
which  they  made.  They  use  these  with  all  new 
children  and  find  them  extremely  serviceable.  An 
ingenious  application  of  Montessori  to  squarehand 
pencil  writing  has  been  made  by  one  of  our  teachers 
who  declares  that  it  not  only  halves  the  time  and 
energy  formerly  put  on  acquiring  this  accomplish- 
ment but  renders  it  far  more  attractive  to  her  little 
subprimary  children.  Her  girls  now  acquire  a  very 
fair  pencil  writing  in  three  months. 

The  girls'  department  of  the  upper  school  is  now 
enjoying  a  course  in  reading  from  the  point  of  view 
of  dramatic  expression.  Each  class  above  the  seventh 
studies  its  selections  so  thoroughly  that  the  examina- 


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tion  in  each  one  consists  in  acting  it  before  an  audi- 
ence.   On  May  12  one  class  of  the  girls  presented  to 
an  audience  filUng  our  large  assembly  hall  scenes 
from  ''Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm"  and  ''Little 
Women."    On  the  evenings  of  March  17  and  18  the 
boys  gave  "The  Comedy  of  Errors"  and  raised  $263, 
half  to  go  to  their  Athletic  Association  and  half  to 
their  Howe  Memorial  Club,  an  association  among 
whose  objects  it  is  to  loan  sums  of  money  to  deserv- 
ing blind  people  trying  to  make  a  start  in  the  world. 
With  $90  out  of  the  Athletic  Association  moneys 
the  boys  had  made  a  fine  large  bronze  tablet  to  the 
memory  of  their  former  gymnastic  instructor,  Mr. 
John  H.  Wright.    This  they  had  erected  in  the  gym- 
nasium, and  they  unveiled  it  with  appropriate  exer- 
cises on  June  24.     Mrs.  Wright  was  present  and 
spoke,  and  of  the  twenty  or  more  Alumni  present 
those  who  spoke  did  so  with  feeHng  and  respect. 
The  whole  affair  as  well  as  the  occasion  of  it  was 
extremely  creditable. 

For  a  good  many  years  now  the  manual  training 
department,  both  of  the  girls  and  the  boys,  has  been 
held  in  the  pupils'  minds  as  on  a  par  with  any  other 
department  of  the  institution.  They  not  only  Uke  it 
but  view  it  from  the  practical  vocational  side,  and 
they  wish  for  all  possible  assignments  to  it.  Occa- 
sionally graduates  return  for  further  opportunities  to 
work  in  it  —  all  which  is  naturally  gratifying.  As  for 
the  boys,  while  at  South  Boston  the  teachers  had 


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recourse  to  money  payment  for  overtime  work  in 
order  to  keep  them  busy  and  out  of  mischief,  as  the 
director  reported  six  years  ago.  Such  payment  has 
now  gone  out  of  vogue,  the  increased  duties  and 
responsibiUties  as  well  as  opportunities  of  the  recon- 
structed school  having  made  this  unnecessary.  And 
yet  whenever  a  teacher  is  in  the  shop  classroom  the 
pupils  will  crowd  in  and  ask  to  be  allowed  to  work. 

There  has  been  a  greater  demand  this  year  than 
ever  before  for  chances  to  work  during  the  summer 
vacations.  Through  the  efforts  of  the  Massachusetts 
Commission  for  the  Blind  this  was  secured  for  three 
girls  and  two  boys,  entirely  away  from  the  institu- 
tion, one  of  whom  has  chosen  to  keep  his  position 
permanently.  The  director  was  able  to  place  two 
recent  graduates,  one  as  instructor  and  salesman 
with  the  New  York  Association  for  the  Bhnd,  the 
other  as  teacher  and  supervisor  at  the  Wisconsin 
School  for  the  Blind.  We  are  pleased  to  learn  that 
all  of  them  either  gave  or  are  giving  satisfaction. 

Through  the  interest  and  efforts  of  a  United  States 
nurse  in  Panama,  we  have  had  at  Perkins  for  the 
past  two  years  a  young  black  boy  as  private  pay 
pupil  from  the  Canal  Zone.  He  was  wholesome, 
capable  and  industrious,  and  as  a  result  of  this  and 
of  his  training  here  he  has  been  given  employment 
at  good  wages  in  a  government  shop  at  his  home. 

For  Tom  Stringer,  the  deaf-blind  young  man  who, 
we  reported  last  year,  seemed  to  have  dementia  prae- 


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cox,  the  experiment  of  caring  for  him  outside  the 
institution  appears  to  have  resulted  quite  favorably, 
and  he  has  accordingly  been  discharged  as  a  pupil. 
The  net  income  of  the  permanent  fund  which  the 
institution  has  been  raising  and  investing  for  Tom 
will  continue  to  be  used  to  meet  the  necessary  ex- 
penses of  his  care.  ''Little  Louis  Yott,"  also  deaf 
and  nearly  blind,  is  now  sixteen  years  old  and  no 
longer  little.  He  is  a  lovable  fellow,  industrious, 
practical  and  capable.  The  outlook  for  him  is  favor- 
able. Though  still  a  few  years  behind  his  mates  in 
general  intelligence,  he  is  fast  catching  up  through 
his  wider  associations  in  the  upper  school. 

Last  January  Mr.  Havrah  Hubbard  of  Boston  told 
our  school  the  story  of  Wagner's  ''Meistersinger." 
Afterwards  our  Mr.  Gardiner  played  upon  the  piano 
its  main  musical  themes,  following  which  practically 
our  whole  choir  of  eighty  singers  attended  a  per- 
formance of  the  opera  itself,  the  tickets  being  bought 
from  the  Maria  Kemble  Oliver  Fund.  This  fund  is 
made  to  be  of  ever  increasing  service  to  the  school, 
many  of  whose  music  students  enjoyed  this  year 
through  it  such  opportunities  as  hearing  the  Boston 
Symphony  Orchestra,  the  operas,  a  recital  by  Pader- 
ewski,  one  by  Kreisler,  and  one  by  the  pianist  Ed- 
ward Baxter  Perry,  and  the  oratorio  Messiah.  The 
founder  of  the  fund  has  at  each  of  his  last  two  birth- 
days given  $1,000  to  it,  directing  that  the  income 
of  these  gifts  be  added  to  the  principal,  until  the 


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whole  amount  is  $15,000.  It  would  be  difficult  to 
express  in  words  the  great  joy  and  benefit  this 
benefaction  is  to  our  young  people. 

Nine  of  the  pupils  have  now  learned  to  chime  our 
finetoned  Wheelwright  bells.  Every  Saturday  morn- 
ing at  eleven  o'clock  some  pupil  plays  upon  them  for 
a  half  hour,  greatly  to  his  own  enjoyment  and  that 
of  all  who  listen. 

Three  years  ago  one  of  our  part  seeing  pupils,  an 
enthusiast  in  flying  machines,  constructed  a  small 
model  of  a  biplane  and  one  of  a  monoplane  and  pre- 
sented them  to  the  school  museum  of  objects.  When 
Mr.  Earl  Ovington  gave  the  institution  his  lecture  on 
flying,  which  he  did  on  March  24,  he  was  not  only 
gratified  but  greatly  helped  in  his  descriptions  by 
knowing  that  every  one  of  his  audience  had  studied 
these  two  models. 

The  six  vacancies  occurring  in  our  corps  of  teachers 
and  officers  were  with  one  exception  filled  before 
school  closed  in  June.  Special  mention  should  be 
made  of  the  resignation  of  Miss  Mary  E.  Sawyer, 
who  had  given  the  highest  satisfaction  as  gymnastic 
instructor  for  ten  years,  and  of  Mr.  Wifliam  G.  Park, 
for  three  years  master  of  the  boys'  school.  He  was 
an  efficient  teacher,  very  devoted  to  his  boys  and 
much  beloved  by  them. 

The  school  hbrary  of  13,461  embossed  books  goes 
on  increasing  in  number  and  usefulness.  The  circu- 
lation among  the  pupils  outside  of  class  this  year 


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was  2,689,  that  of  books  required  in  class  4,403.  The 
circulation  among  the  blind  outside  the  institution 
was  5,296,  making  a  total  circulation  of  12,388  vol- 
umes. It  is  of  interest  to  note  that  the  most  popular 
piece  of  fiction  this  year  was  the  short  story,  ''The 
Courage  of  the  Commonplace,"  and  the  most  popu- 
lar biography  was  Mary  Antin's  "The  Promised 
Land." 

The  Howe  Memorial  Press  reports  an  active  sea- 
son, not  so  much  in  the  production  of  new  books  and 
music  scores  as  in  issuing  new  editions  of  old  ones 
required  through  their  constant  sales.  And  yet  it 
has  issued  22  new  books  in  43  parts,  and  23  new 
titles  in  music. 

The  workshop  for  adults  at  South  Boston  has  had 
a  successful  year  financially  in  spite  of  the  stringency 
of  the  times.  This  happy  result  its  manager  has 
brought  about  by  a  campaign  of  publicity  advertis- 
ing which  brought  in  among  other  business  one  order 
for  520  new  mattresses  for  a  local  hospital.  We 
would  again  call  the  attention  of  friends  and  patrons 
to  this  admirably  conducted  workshop  for  the  blind. 

The  teaching  of  the  adult  blind  in  their  homes, 
which  Perkins  still  carries  on  for  the  Commonwealth, 
has  proceeded  with  little  variation  in  effectiveness 
from  former  years.  But  it  is  costing  more  and  more 
money  to  conduct  it;  therefore  a  request  for  an 
increased  appropriation  has  been  presented.  The 
teachers  have  visited  75  new  cases,  15  of  whom  de- 


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clined  instruction,  have  traveled  34,561  miles  and 
given  1,626  lessons. 

The  class  for  defective  eyesight  children,  which 
the  institution  helped  start  two  years  ago  in  Rox- 
bury,  has  been  continued  with  increased  eflficiency 
by  the  public  school  department  of  Boston.  Though 
having  but  thirteen  pupils  at  a  time,  its  work  is 
necessarily  so  individual  that  a  second  teacher  had 
to  be  appointed  to  help  Miss  Helen  L.  Smith.  The 
city  was  specially  fortunate  in  securing  Miss  Sarah 
M.  Lilley,  for  many  years  an  efficient  teacher  at 
Perkins. 

Our  Jamaica  Plain  kindergarten  property  was  sold 
in  September  last  to  the  House  of  the  Angel  Guardian, 
and  a  transfer  of  the  property  that  had  been  used  for 
school  purposes  at  South  Boston,  together  with  cer- 
tain other  property  belonging  to  this  institution,  was 
effected  during  the  past  summer,  in  exchange  for  a 
business  block  on  North  Washington  Street,  Boston. 
Thus,  all  unproductive  property  that  would  have 
been  a  drain  upon  the  institution  has  been  exchanged 
for  that  which  is  productive. 

On  March  31  last  the  management,  actors,  musi- 
cians and  ushers  of  the  Shubert  Theater  Company 
gave  to  the  blind  of  Boston  and  vicinity  in  the  Ma- 
jestic Theater  a  special  performance  of  ''Within  the 
Law."  By  request  of  the  donors  the  play  was  pre- 
sented under  the  auspices  of  the  Perkins  Institution 
whose  press  issued  in  raised  print  the  1,640  programs 


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distributed  at  the  theater  and  the  announcement  in- 
vitations sent  out  by  the  Massachusetts  Commission 
for  the  BHnd.  Between  the  acts  the  story  of  what 
was  to  follow  was  told  so  that  the  members  of  that 
crowded  audience  really  understood  the  acting  of  a 
play  as  never  before.  The  whole  thing  gave  more 
pleasure  to  the  bUnd  of  greater  Boston  than  the 
kindly  company  of  performers  can  ever  know. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1914,  the  number  of  blind  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  310,  which  is  19  more  than 
on  the  corresponding  date  of  the  previous  year. 
This  number  included  77  boys  and  79  girls  in  the 
upper  school,  59  boys  and  60  girls  in  the  lower  school, 
13  teachers  and  officers,  and  22  adults  in  the  work- 
shop at  South  Boston.  There  have  been  59  admitted 
and  40  discharged  during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1913-1914:  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
10;  Interstitial  keratitis,  2;  Ulcerated  keratitis,  1; 
Panophthalmitis,  1 ;  Neuritis,  1 ;  Retro-bulba  neuritis, 
1;  Injuries,  1;  Atrophy  of  the  optic  nerve,  13;  Con- 
genital, 4;  Congenital  cataracts,  5;  Congenital  am- 
blyopia, 6;  Albinism,  1;  Aniridia,  2;  Aniridia  and 
congenital  cataract,  1;  Sympathetic  ophthalmia,  2; 
Purulent  ophthalmia,  1;  High  myopia  of  progressive 
type,  1;  Intra-ocular  hemorrhages,  1;  Conical  cor- 
nea, 1;  Unknown,  1. 

The  health  of  the  members  of  the  several  families 


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has  been  almost  uniformly  good,  only  two  cases  of 
scarlet  fever  and  a  few  cases  of  measles  and  chicken 
pox  being  reported  from  the  lower  school.  We  record 
with  sorrow  the  death  of  three  of  our  children:  Doris 
E.  Kingsley  of  Roxbury  died  at  a  hospital,  Dec.  19, 
1913,  after  an  operation  for  tumor  on  the  brain; 
Alice  L.  E.  Ahlgren  died  of  acute  Bright 's  disease  at 
her  home,  Campello,  Mass.,  Dec.  24,  1913;  Michael 
Czudakiewicz,  a  new  pupil,  died  of  typhoid  fever  at 
a  hospital,  Feb.  18,  1914,  having  fallen  ill  soon  after 
his  entrance  into  the  kindergarten. 

Sir  Francis  Campbell,  the  eminent  principal  of  the 
Royal  Normal  College  and  Academy  of  Music  for 
the  Blind,  London,  England,  died  there  June  30  last. 
As  everybody  connected  with  the  profession  knows, 
Sir  Francis  was  American  born  and  bred,  and  totally 
blind;  but  few  realize  that  when  a  young  man  he  was 
for  eleven  years  not  only  director  of  music  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  but,  as  Dr.  Howe  says  in  his 
annual  report  for  1874,  "He  became  my  principal 
assistant;  and  I  relied  much  upon  his  zeal  and  coun- 
sels." And  fewer  still  know  how  closely  connected 
the  two  institutions  were  in  the  early  days  of  the 
college.     Dr.  Howe  writes  in  the  same  report: 

Mr.  C.  could  not  find  suitable  teachers  in  London;  and 
sought  some  who  had  been  trained  in  our  school.  He  applied 
to  me  to  give  leave  of  absence  to  one  of  our  teachers  to 
help  him,  and  I  consented  with  pleasure.  He  then  applied 
for  another  and  another,  as  his  school  grew;  and  he  obtained 


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them  because  I  felt  bound  by  duty  to  the  cause  to  help 
what  was  in  reality  an  American  institution,  struggling  for 
existence  in  a  foreign  land,  which  would  give  the  blind 
greater  advantages  than  any  existing  there. 

For  this  reason  I  consented  to  part  with  several  of  my 
most  valued  assistants  and  teachers;  and  the  Royal  Normal 
College  and  Academy  of  Music  for  the  Blind  soon  became 
virtually  an  American  institution  for  the  instruction  of 
British  youth;  with  Mr.  Campbell  as  its  head;  my  valued 
friend  and  assistant,  Joel  W.  Smith,  as  the  principal  assist- 
ant; and  such  excellent  teachers  from  our  school  as  Miss 
Mary  Knight,  Misses  Greene,  Faulkner,  Howes  and  Dawson 
to  do  the  daily  work. 

The  Miss  Faulkner  here  mentioned  married  Sir 
Francis  (then  Mr.)  Campbell  and  became  Lady 
Principal  of  the  College;  and  the  Miss  Greene  organ- 
ized in  1879  the  teaching  of  blind  children  in  the 
London  public  schools,  remaining  to  superintend 
this  work  for  twenty  years. 

Forty-four  Americans  are  said  to  have  gone  over 
to  aid  Sir  Francis  at  one  time  or  another.  Of  these 
fourteen  went  from  the  Perkins  Institution.  In  later 
years  several  Americans  who  began  teaching  the 
blind  at  the  Royal  Normal  College  came  to  teach  at 
Perkins,  —  Mrs.  Elwyn  H.  Fowler,  Mrs.  Wallace  M, 
Leonard,  Miss  Olive  Prescott,  and  our  present 
director. 


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Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

C.  W.  Amory;  Silas  Reed  Anthony;  Mrs.  Isa- 
bel Chapin,  widow  of  Samuel  J.  Barrows;  Edward 
Brooks;  Eleazar  Davis  Chamberlain;  Miss 
Sarah  W.  Clark;  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  widow  of  the 
Rev.  Ephraim  C.  Cummings;  Michael  M.  Cunniff; 
Mrs.  Mary  S.,  widow  of  Nelson  Curtis;  Eben 
Sumner  Draper;  Miss  Amelia  Mackay  Goodwin; 
Norwood  Penrose  Hallowell;  James  Lawrence; 
Mrs.  Caroline  H.,  widow  of  George  C.  Lee. 

The  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School 
for  the  Blind  has  suffered  a  heavy  loss  by  the  death 
of  Norwood  Penrose  Hallowell.  He  had  been  in- 
timately associated  with  the  work  of  the  school  for 
sixteen  years.  In  January,  1898,  he  was  appointed 
a  Trustee  by  Governor  Wolcott  in  place  of  Thomas 
L.  Livermore,  resigned.  He  was  reappointed  each 
succeeding  year  until  October,  1912,  when  he  was 
elected  Trustee  and  Vice-President  of  the  Corpora- 
tion in  place  of  Amory  A.  Lawrence  who  had  died. 

Colonel  Hallowell  took  a  vital  interest  in  the 
affairs  of  the  school  and  for  many  years,  through 
his  courtesy,  the  trustees'  meetings  have  been  held 
at  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce. 

Possessed  of  deep  convictions,  broad  sympathies, 
and  a  chivalrous  sense  of  honor,  he  gave  particular 
attention  to  the  handicapped  and  oppressed,  being 
interested  not  only  in  the  blind  but  in  the  deaf,  and 
serving,  among  other  capacities,  as  Treasurer  of  the 


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Sarah   Fuller   Home   for   Deaf   Children   in   West 
Medford. 

The  Trustees  of  the  Perkins  Institution,  feeling 
keenly  the  loss  of  his  wise  counsel  and  generous  help- 
fulness, wish  to  put  on  record  their  appreciation  of 
his  services  and  at  the  same  time  to  extend  their 
sympathy  to  the  members  of  his  family. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE  OILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE  P.   ROGERS, 
RICHARD   M.   SALTONSTALL, 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Triistees. 


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FORMAL  OPENING  OF 

THE  NEW  BUILDINGS  OF 

THE   PERKINS   INSTITUTION   AND 

MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL  FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Thursday  Afternoon,  June  4,  1914. 


In  spite  of  rain,  fully  six  hundred  guests  came  in 
response  to  the  special  invitation,  and  the  following 
program  was  carried  out  in  a  most  dignified  and 
satisfactory  manner :  — 

I.    Inspection  of  New  Buildings  and  Grounds. 

2-3  o'clock. 

II.    Chiming  of  the  Wheelwright  Bells  by  Pupils. 

2.30  o'clock. 

III.    Dedication  Exercises  in  the  Great  Hall. 

3  o'clock. 

Prayer  by  the  Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

Singing,  "The  Battle  Hymn  of  the  Republic"  (by  request). 
By  the  School  Choir. 

Opening  Remarks  by  the  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Corporation. 

Address    by  His    Excellency   David    I.    Walsh,    Governor    of 
Massachusetts. 

Address  by  Prof.  Henry  Marion  Howe. 

Address  by  Prof.  Francis  G.  Peabody. 

Address  by  WiUiam  B.  Perry,  Esq. 

Singing,  The  Epilog  to  "The  Golden  Legend"  (Sullivan). 
By  the  School  Choir. 

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IV.     Exhibition  at  4  o'clock. 

By  Boys  in  the  Gymnasium  and  Swimming  Pool. 
By  Girls  on  the  Green. 

V.    Five  O'Clock  Tea  in  the  West  Com-t  of  the  Howe  Building. 

Naturally  the  aesthetic  dancing  by  the  girls  and 
the  tea  had  to  be  given  indoors. 

Besides  the  choir  and  the  speakers  of  the  afternoon, 
there  were  on  the  platform  the  four  surviving  mem- 
bers of  the  family  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Howe,  President 
Appleton,  the  Trustees  and  Director  of  the  Institu- 
tion, and  Mr.  Charles  F.  F.  Campbell,  Ex-Secretary 
of  the  Ohio  Commission  for  the  Bhnd. 

Prayer  by  the  Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

O  Thou,  whose  truest  worship  is  a  life,  whose  highest  serv- 
ice lies  in  serving  others,  help  us  to  dedicate  ourselves  to 
Thee  as  we  meet  to  dedicate  these  buildings  to  service,  truth 
and  love.  As  we  gather  in  these  newly  builded  walls  we 
remember  with  gratitude  and  reverence  all  those  of  the  years 
and  generations  gone  who  toiled  to  make  this  Institution 
great.  We  call  to  mind  the  power  of  their  faith,  and  the 
chivalry  of  their  unselfish  service,  and  the  beauty  of  their 
high  example. 

And,  as  we  remember  those  who  taught  in  the  years  that 
are  gone,  so  we  would  be  mindful  also  of  those  who  were 
patient  and  persistent  in  their  eagerness  to  learn.  We  thank 
Thee  for  all  those  who  overcame  great  obstacles,  and  tri- 
umphed over  difficulties,  —  who  made  their  way  through 
darkness  into  light  and,  going  out  into  the  world,  became 
public-spirited  and  useful  citizens. 

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With  all  of  these  we  would  call  to  mind  with  gratitude  on 
this  occasion  all  those  who  have  given  out  of  their  abundance 
from  a  sense  of  pity  to  make  this  institution  strong.  May 
the  blessing  of  their  generosity  long  remain  with  us,  and  may 
the  memory  of  their  benefactions  serve  as  an  example  unto 
others. 

So  help  us  to  be  grateful  and  reverent,  thankful  and  hope- 
ful as  we  dedicate  these  buildings  to  the  light  of  love,  and 
the  service  of  the  world. 

Opening  Remarks  of  President  Francis  Henry 

Appleton. 

What  enormous  strides  this  Institution  has  made 
since  that  earliest  outspoken  proposal  in  1826  of 
founding  a  School  for  the  Blind  of  New  England  at 
Boston.  This  School  began  as  ''The  New  England 
Asylum  for  the  Blind"  by  Act  of  Incorporation 
dated  March  2,  1829.  To  the  young  physician  of 
that  day,  John  D.  Fisher,  belongs  the  signal  distinc- 
tion of  having  founded  not  only  this,  but  every  other 
like  school  which  followed  after  this  in  the  United 
States.  Dr.  Samuel  Eliot  expresses  the  opinion  that 
the  very  greatest  of  Dr.  Fisher's  services  was  the 
enlistment  of  another  young  physician  of  Boston  in 
this  undertaking,  Dr.  Samuel  G.  Howe.  In  August, 
1832,  the  school  was  opened  in  the  Pleasant  Street 
house  of  Dr.  Howe's  father  with  six  pupils. 

In  January,  1833,  the  Trustees  addressed  a  Me- 
morial to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  saying  that 
they  are  "desirous  that  the  Legislature  by  whose 
bounty  they  have  been  able  to  prosecute  their  design 

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thus  far,  should  witness  the  success  of  their  experi- 
ment. .  .  .  Without  further  aid  it  will  be  im- 
possible to  continue  the  establishment  even  in  its 
present  humble  condition,  much  less  to  extend  its 
usefulness."  That  appeal  was  successful,  and  while 
this  State  has  continued  her  much  needed  aid  ever 
since,  it  has  been  only  possible  to  continue  by  the 
gifts  from  a  generous  and  appreciative  public  who 
have  so  largely  supplemented  the  aid  from  the  State. 

That  eminent  Bostonian,  Thomas  H.  Perkins,  in 
1833  offered  his  house  in  Pearl  Street,  a  large  and 
attractive  mansion  with  open  spaces  about  it,  for  the 
permanent  use  of  the  blind  and  their  teachers  and 
attendants.  Later  Col.  Perkins  consented  to  a  sale 
of  the  real  estate  he  had  given;  and  the  Trustees 
bought  the  well  known  and  imposing  building  and 
lands  at  South  Boston  and  in  1839  settled  there  under 
the  name  of  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
Asylum  for  the  Blind.  Here  the  work  was  developed. 
All  New  England  has  showed  interest  in  this  School. 

Until  January,  1876,  Dr.  Howe  continued  his  splen- 
did and  successful  efforts  in  this  cause  for  humanity, 
when  death  closed  his  earthly  labors.  Mr.  Michael 
Anagnos  succeeded  his  father-in-law.  Dr.  Howe,  as 
Director,  and  the  remarkable  development  of  the 
Kindergarten  under  Mr.  Anagnos  is  deserving  of 
special  mention.  Mr.  Anagnos  died  June  29,  1906. 
The  Present  Director,  Mr.  Edward  E.  Allen,  a  Har- 
vard Graduate,  came  to  us  from  the  Principalship  of 
the  School  for  the  Blind  at  Overbrook,  Pennsylvania. 

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That  able  architect,  Mr.  R.  Clipston  Sturgis,  with 
the  large  experience  of  Mr.  Allen  to  help  him,  has 
builded  well  for  us  and  we  date  our  occupancy  here 
from  1912.  The  fundamental  basis  of  the  present 
plant  here  at  Watertown  —  that  in  which  it  differs 
from  all  others  for  the  blind  in  the  world  —  is  its 
"construction  for  the  maximum  help  in  the  daily 
running  by  the  pupils  themselves."  The  bhnd  pay 
no  tuition,  are  usually  poor  and  have  no  servants  at 
home.  They  should  not  be  waited  on  by  servants 
here,  and  are  not  above  the  kindergarten  and  primary. 
Self-reliance  is  to  be  the  foundation  of  their  future 
happiness,  and  this  self-reliance  can  only  be  acquired 
by  habitual  experience  in  doing  things  for  themselves. 
Mr.  Allen  tells  the  pupils  they  owe  to  the  State  that 
they  become  educated  as  far  as  possible  to  be  Ufters 
rather  than  leaners,  and  that  the  more  they  can  con- 
tribute now  as  young  people  at  school  the  more  they 
will  be  able  to  contribute  afterwards  in  the  world. 

Ours  is  not  the  "cottage"  but  rather  the  family 
system  of  Dr.  Howe  and  Mr.  Anagnos,  now  first 
carried  out  in  all  the  thirteen  groups  of  the  Institu- 
tion. Teachers,  officers  and  pupils  do  their  own  room 
work  —  the  men  too  —  and  the  pupils  do  besides  as 
much  of  the  other  housework  as  they  can  without 
sacrifice  of  schooling.  This  rather  ideal  system  is 
already  working  admirably.  We  employ  fewer 
women  servants  than  we  did  at  South  Boston  and 
Jamaica  Plain.  Mr.  Allen  has  planned  from  the 
beginning  to  do  so;  for  he  would  not  have  wished  or 

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dared  to  build  so  spaciously  as  has  been  done  on  the 
usual  plan  in  American  schools  for  the  bhnd  of  fur- 
nishing everything  for  nothing,  and  at  a  necessary 
increase  in  the  per  capita  expense. 

All  this  should  be  clearly  understood;  otherwise  the 
present  delightful  and  model  plant  is  not  easily  justi- 
fiable. Pupils  who  help  keep  up  their  homelike  cot- 
tages while  at  school  are  thereby  made  the  less  likely 
to  be  discontented  after  graduation. 

The  Great  Tower  stretches  towards  Heaven  as  if 
always  seeking  God's  blessing  on  this  great  work;  and 
may  its  chimes  lend  cheer  to  every  movement  within 
these  walls! 

This  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School 
exists  to  benefit  those  who  need  such  help  as  can 
be  given  here,  to  the  limit  of  our  capacity.  This  is 
the  latest  structure  for  the  purpose;  and,  we  believe, 
stands  —  now  —  as  an  example  for  efficiency. 

Our  power  to  teach  the  pupils  to  lift  themselves 
depends  largely  upon  the  financial  means  at  hand. 

Massachusetts  stands  in  a  motherly  position  to  this 
Institution  —  and  its  pupils;  and  it  gives  me  pleasure 
to  be  here  to  welcome  His  Excellency,  the  Governor, 
David  I.  Walsh. 

Address  of  His  Excellency  David  I.  Walsh,  Governor 
OF  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  it  is  very  fitting 
and  most  appropriate  that  the  Governor  of  the  Common- 
wealth should  come  out  here  this  afternoon  and  by  his  pres- 

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ence  show  the  great  interest  that  the  Commonwealth  and  its 
people  have  in  this  splendid  institution.  I  am  very  glad  of 
the  opportunity  of  joining  with  you  in  dedicating  these 
magnificent  buildings  to  such  a  holy  and  worthy  cause,  and 
I  am  especially  anxious  that  the  official  voice  of  your  Com- 
monwealth should  be  expressed  here  in  no  uncertain  words 
of  approval  and  congratulation.  It  is  the  duty  of  a  great 
government  like  ours  and  of  a  Commonwealth  so  historic  and 
so  progressive  as  Massachusetts  to  be  interested  especially  in 
all  those  problems  that  relate  to  the  betterment  of  the  condi- 
tions of  the  people.  In  fact,  I  take  it  that  one  of  the  first 
purposes  of  a  government  of  to-day  is,  nat  so  much  what  it 
was  in  the  past  —  the  preservation  of  life  and  property  —  but 
rather  the  perfection  of  life,  the  achievement  of  all  that  may 
be  done  for  making  the  future  citizens  of  our  government 
strong  physically,  strong  mentally  and  strong  morally. 
When  we  have  that  conception  of  our  government,  we  see 
how  important  is  the  work  of  being  concerned  about  the 
welfare  of  those  who  are  less  fortunate  than  the  great 
majority. 

Here  has  been  builded  a  great  institution,  dedicated  to  the 
work  of  adding  to  the  usefulness  of  these  young  men  and 
women  and  of  contributing  to  their  happiness,  their  welfare 
and  their  prosperity.  You  know  our  Constitution  says  that 
this  government  is  founded  not  only  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
tecting life  and  property,  but  for  contributing  to  the  happi- 
ness, welfare  and  prosperity  of  all  the  people:  and  this 
government  has  done  more  of  this  work  and  will  continue  to 
do  more  than  any  other  country  under  the  sun.  Here,  in 
this  institution  is  a  work  adding  to  the  happiness  and  use- 
fulness of  these  young  men  and  women  of  our  Common- 
wealth, and  it  is  most  fitting  that  the  Governor  of  Massa- 

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chusetts  be  interested  to  encourage  not  only  this  institution, 
but  similar  institutions  all  over  the  world. 

Nothing  makes  a  governor  or  public  official  so  proud  of 
his  Commonwealth  as  to  have  men  and  women  actively 
interested  in  the  great  task  of  doing  the  State's  work,  and 
in  that  category  belongs  the  work  of  caring  for  all  these 
young  women  and  men.  So  I  hold  it  to  be  fitting  that  the 
Governor  should  be  here  personally  to  show  the  State's 
appreciation  of  all  that  has  been  done  by  the  good  women 
and  good  men  previous  to  this  day  to  make  such  an  institu- 
tion possible.  They  have  given  their  best  energies  to  one  of 
the  greatest  causes  of  our  time  and  have  contributed  mate- 
rially to  the  welfare  and  usefulness  of  their  fellow  citizens. 

I  like  to  think  of  our  government  as  a  person,  —  indeed, 
as  the  mother  of  this  institution,  the  kind,  considerate, 
loving,  anxious  mother:  and  we  like  to  compare  the  relation 
between  the  mother  government  and  the  children  of  the 
Commonwealth  to  that  of  a  natural  mother's  relations  with 
her  children.  She  loves  them  all,  she  is  concerned  about 
them  all,  interested  in  them  all,  but  the  natural  mother,  if 
you  can  distinguish  between  her  methods,  gives  a  little  more 
of  thought,  a  little  more  of  study  and  affection  to  those  to 
whom  misfortunes  have  come  to  limit  their  capabilities  in 
life. 

I  like  to  think  that  my  Commonwealth  cares  for  the  wel- 
fare and  happiness  of  those  whose  burdens  are  great  and 
whose  capacity  to  do  may  be  limited;  and  therefore,  I  bring 
here  to-day  the  very  deepest  and  warmest  appreciation  of 
the  State  and  affirm  that  a  most  important  service  is  the 
welfare  of  these  young  ladies  and  gentlemen  who  are  here  to 
be  trained  and  educated,  and  to  receive  such  splendid  instruc- 
tion as  to  be  almost  as  well  equipped  to  take  their  place  in 

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the  world  as  those  whose  faculties  are  complete.    That  is  the 
thought  I  want  to  bring  to-day. 

I  offer,  therefore,  the  warmest  and  heartiest  greetings  of 
our  Commonwealth  to  this  splendid,  progressive  institution 
which  is  close  and  dear  to  the  heart  of  the  mother  State,  and 
wish  it  unbounded  and  unlimited  success  and  hope  and  pray 
that  it  may  continue  in  its  high  and  noble  work  for  the 
general  betterment  of  these  youth  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts. 

President  Appleton:  —  We  are  fortunate  in  having 
with  us  to-day  all  Dr.  Howe's  surviving  children. 
His  name  has  been  so  identified  with  this  school  from 
its  beginning;  its  growth,  its  methods  have  been  so 
largely  due  to  his  initiative  and  influence;  and  even 
its  recent  removal  from  the  smoky  city  to  the  green 
fields  of  the  country  was  so  keenly  foreseen  by  him 
as  its  ultimate  destiny,  that  it  gives  me  the  greatest 
pleasure  to  ask  his  son,  who  has  himself  won  an  envi- 
able distinction  in  his  chosen  field  of  science,  to  say  a 
few  words  to  you  —  Professor  Henry  M.  Howe,  of 
Columbia  University. 

Address  of  Professor  Henry  M.  Howe. 

Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  and  more  especially 

you  young  ladies  and  gentlemen  for  whom  and  for  whose 

successors  this  great  work  has  been  done: 

To  man  propose  this  test, 

Thy  body  at  its  best 

How  far  can  that  project  thy  soul  on  its  lone  way? 

The  prophets,  what  battles  did  they  win,  what  cities  did 
they  build,  what  dynasties  did  they  found?     But  to-day, 

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when  the  battles  won,  the  cities  built,  the  dynasties  founded 
by  the  leaders  of  their  time  are  either  forgotten  or  are  at 
most  mere  names,  the  appeal  of  the  prophets  not  only  re- 
mains unweakened  but  moves  a  hundred  for  every  one  of 
their  contemporaries  who  listened  to  it.  The  force  of  their 
example  not  only  persists  but  increases  through  time,  after 
the  material  achievements  of  their  day  are  forgotten  dust. 

One  accent  of  the  Holy  Ghost 
The  heedless  world  has  never  lost. 

Each  of  us  in  his  degree  can  exert  a  like  continuing  and 
directing  influence.  Each  of  us  can  better  the  world  by  his 
example,  not  indeed  conspicuously  as  the  prophets  did,  but 
yet  better  it,  exerting  an  influence  like  in  kind  to  theirs, 
however  far  it  may  fall  short  of  theirs  in  degree. 

My  pebble  cast  into  the  Atlantic  starts  a  wave  which 
spreads  ceaselessly  till,  however  undetectable,  it  in  time 
washes  unseen  the  shores  of  Europe  and  Africa  from  end  to 
end.  As  the  ocean  is  thus  a  perfect  vehicle  for  transmitting 
this  wavelet,  so  is  humanity  a  perfect  vehicle  for  trans- 
mitting endlessly  the  stimulus  of  example,  through  and  past 
those  first  stimulated,  to  and  past  those  whom  they  in  turn 
stimulate,  and  so  on  ceaselessly. 

To  these  familiar  thoughts  let  me  add  one,  that  in  the 
degree  in  which  you  are  handicapped  physically  toward 
material  accomplishment,  in  that  same  degree  are  you 
strengthened  for  such  spiritual  accomplishment.  Let  us 
look  at  this. 

The  example  of  the  sighted  man,  of  the  every  day  man, 
in  struggling  with  his  environment,  in  keeping  under  the 
"  ape  and  the  tiger  "  born  in  him  and  endlessly  striving  for 
the  mastery,  indeed  helps  all  who  see,  hear,  or  know  of  him. 

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But  here  we  should  note  an  important  difference.  The  force 
of  such  examples  is  lessened  by  their  very  familiarity,  by 
our  belief  that  we  know  precisely  what  our  neighbor  is 
struggling  against.  But  your  example  is  the  more  cogent 
because  of  our  knowledge  that  you  have  to  struggle  against 
obstacles,  to  overcome  resistances,  not  only  unknown  to  us 
but  diflBcult  to  imagine  or  gauge.  It  is  part  of  human  nature 
to  belittle  the  familiar  and  to  magnify  the  unimagined  and 
the  ungauged.  The  fact  that  you  have  these  unimagined 
diflBculties  superadded  to  those  of  our  common  humanity, 
adds  greatly  to  the  stimulation  which  we  draw  from  what- 
ever patience,  courage,  and  cheerfulness  you  show,  and  from 
whatever  measure  of  success  you  reach.  If  you  can  bear 
your  burden  bravely  and  cheerfully,  I  am  ashamed  to  weigh 
mine.  You  give  me  that  confidence  which  should  be  the 
beginning  of  victory. 

Should  not  this,  your  gift  of  added  power  of  example,  of  en- 
hanced power  to  better  your  fellows  thus  spiritually,  go  far  to 
offset  your  material  handicap?  Had  you  been  given  sight  you 
might  have  founded  a  town  or  an  industry  to  crumble  and  be 
forgotten.  Denied  sight  you  are  given  instead  an  added 
power  to  help  your  neighbors  spiritually  with  a  continuing  re- 
sult. After  all  is  said  and  done,  your  bodies  are  as  well  fitted 
as  ours  for  the  supreme  work  of  projecting  souls.  Hampered 
as  you  are  in  material  achievement  you  can  say: 

Not  on  the  viilgar  mass 

Called  work  must  judgment  pass, 

Things  done  that  took  the  eye  and  had  the  price; 


But  all  the  world's  coarse  thumb, 
And  finger  failed  to  plumb,  — 


That  I  was  worth  to  God. 

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If  these  thoughts  are  true,  if  a  special  power  is  thus  given 
you,  like  every  other  power  it  is  entrusted  to  be  exercised 
diligently. 

If  self-knowledge  is  as  important  for  an  age  as  for  a  man, 
may  we  not  say  that  the  distinguishing  quality  of  our  time 
is  service,  the  helping  of  others?  The  early  history  of  man- 
kind seems  much  like  the  history  of  any  animal,  the  survival 
of  the  fittest  in  the  struggle  for  existence,  the  evolution  of 
forms  better  and  better  fitted  to  save  themselves  from  sur- 
rounding dangers.  But  if  we  look  about  us  to-day,  we  find 
on  every  hand  men  who  are  striving  not  for  their  own  pres- 
ervation but  for  the  welfare  of  others,  not  for  the  extermi- 
nation but  for  the  conservation  and  strengthening  of  the 
weak.  Such  are  the  vast  numbers  of  missionaries  who  give 
up  their  whole  lives  to  the  uplifting  of  those  less  favored 
than  themselves,  be  it  abroad,  or  be  it  at  home.  By  giving 
first  material  help  they  gain  the  confidence  which  enables 
them  to  give  intellectual  help,  and  this  in  turn  leads  to  that 
for  which  the  whole  system  is  designed,  spiritual  help.  One 
has  but  to  imagine  the  conditions  of  such  a  life  to  under- 
stand the  nobility  of  the  sacrifices,  the  parting  once  and  for 
all  from  home,  from  loved  ones,  from  comfort,  and  from  all 
hope  of  material  prosperity.  And  very  often  this  means 
abandoning  environments  which  offer  every  possible  mate- 
rial and  intellectual  attraction.  Young  men  born  to  wealth, 
distinction,  and  power  set  all  aside  to  help  those  of  whom 
they  hardly  know. 

But  that  is  only  one  striking  symptom  of  the  spirit  of  the  age. 
You  have  but  to  look  below  the  surface  to  find  everywhere 
its  abundant  and  varied  workings,  less  striking  but  hardly 
less  convincing.  There  is  the  parallel  turning  away  from 
wealth  and  ease  to  the  physician's  never  ending  labor,  at 

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all  hours  of  the  night  and  in  all  weathers;  to  the  settlement 
in  the  city's  slums;  to  the  career  of  the  nurse,  whose  stoop- 
ing to  the  repugnant  and  the  menial  we  reverence  as  an  imi- 
tation of  the  Master's  washing  of  His  disciples'  feet. 

Every  age  has  indeed  had  its  good  and  unselfish  people, 
who  neglected  their  own  interests  to  serve  God  through 
serving  his  children.  The  mark  of  this  age  is  the  wide 
spread  of  this  spirit  of  service.  It  is  breathed  not  by  the 
exceptional  man  alone  but  by  the  mass.  One  is  hardly 
respectable  to-day  who,  having  provided  for  his  old  age, 
fails  to  give  some  of  his  strength  to  the  service  of  his  fellows. 

To-day  it  is  not  the  dreamer  but  the  mass  of  our  people 
who  burn  with  indignation  at  the  exploitation  of  the  weak 
by  the  strong,  at  cruel  hours  and  conditions  of  work  in  shop, 
factory,  mine,  or  prison,  at  the  leading  astray  of  the  young 
and  the  infirm  of  will  by  the  infamous  class  which  thrives  on 
drunkenness,  gambling,  and  other  forms  of  vice.  It  is  not 
the  doctrinaire  but  the  whole  people  that  willed  our  guiding 
Cuba  and  the  Philippines  to  their  own  future,  and  scorned 
to  turn  victory  to  self-advantage. 

It  is  of  such  an  age  that  this  institution  is  a  beautiful 
flower,  a  priceless  fruit.  You,  its  givers  are  to  be  congratu- 
lated on  being  attuned  to  respond,  under  the  stimulus  of  the 
age,  to  the  cry  of  these  darkened  ones;  on  being  so  consti- 
tuted that  you  are  capable  of  being  incited  thus  to  give  the 
laborers  of  this  field  the  means  to  continue,  to  broaden,  and 
to  better  this  humane  work. 

You,  Sirs,  who  have  planned  and  worked  out  this  reflor- 
escence  are  to  be  congratulated  on  being  of  such  stuff  that 
you  can  be  thus  stimulated  to  evolve  a  setting  whose  fitness, 
whose  beauty,  whose  dignity,  whose  harmony,  yes,  whose 
melody,  must  in  turn  ever  stimulate  those  who  work  with 

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you  and  under  you,  to  consecrate  themselves  ardently  to 
this  labor,  to  feel  its  privilege,  and  to  give  the  best  that 
lies  in  them  for  these  their  brothers  and  sisters  in  such  bitter 
need. 

You,  our  young  friends,  are  to  be  congratulated,  not  only 
because  you  are  to  receive  such  stimulated  guidance,  but 
also  because  you  have  given  much  of  the  impulse  which  has 
awakened  this  loving  generosity  in  the  hearts  of  these  givers, 
this  wisdom  and  beauty  in  the  minds  of  these  planners,  and 
this  consecration  in  the  spirit  of  these  your  guides. 

We  who  are  privileged  to  live  in  this  age  typified  by  the 
first  and  the  last  of  the  instances  I  have  cited,  the  missionary 
exhorting  those  poor  in  opportunity,  and  this  present  work 
for  opening  intellectually  and  spiritually  the  eyes  of  these 
our  brothers,  this  age  when  "The  blind  see  and  to  the  poor 
the  gospel  is  preached,"  we  may  well  cry 

Mine  eyes  have  seen  the  glory  of  the  coming  of  the  Lord. 

President  Appleton:  —  The  life-long  devotion  to  the 
good  works  within  the  field  of  his  Alma  Mater,  Har- 
vard University,  have  not  prevented,  but  seem  to 
have  intensified,  his  outside  (if  I  may  so  express  it) 
devotions  to  the  causes  (and  I  use  the  plural  pur- 
posely) of  humanity  in  varied  other  fields,  including 
our  special  field  of  work  here. 

It  gives  me  special  pleasure  to  be  privileged  to 
present  to  you  Professor  Emeritus,  Rev.  Francis 
Greenwood  Peabody. 


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Address  of  Professor  Francis  G.   Peabody  of  Harvard 

University. 

I  wish  to  express,  first  of  all,  my  personal  pleasure  in 
hearing  the  peal  of  bells  which  adorn  your  stately  tower, 
and  in  associating  their  melodious  tones  with  the  memory  of 
my  friend  and  summer  neighbor,  Andrew  Wheelwright.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  gracious,  kindly  and  winning  of  souls, 
as  pure  in  metal,  free  from  flaw,  and  cheering  in  influence, 
as  the  bells  which  bear  his  name;  and  his  modest  and  gen- 
erous spirit  is  most  fitly  honored  in  this  place  of  public 
service. 

I  should  like  to  speak  next  of  the  contribution  which  this 
School  has  for  many  years  made,  not  only  to  the  education 
of  the  blind,  but  to  the  education  of  young  men  in  the  sister 
institution  of  Harvard  College.  In  directing  a  course  of 
study  there  on  the  social  movements  and  achievements  of 
the  modern  world,  I  have  from  year  to  year  asked  permis- 
sion from  your  Director  to  bring  my  students  for  an  inspec- 
tion of  this  School,  and  hundreds  of  Harvard  boys  have  thus 
had  the  privilege,  not  only  of  studying  its  methods  and 
reporting  on  its  results,  but  of  having  the  spiritual  experi- 
ence of  realizing  what  the  School  has  done.  To  bring  a 
healthy,  happy,  thoughtless  youth  face  to  face  with  disability 
and  infirmity,  and  have  him  realize,  perhaps  for  the  first 
time,  what  struggles  and  victories  are  possible  to  those  less 
fortunate  than  he,  is  to  open  his  eyes  to  a  larger  world  than 
that  of  his  own  studies  or  his  play,  and  to  teach  him  lessons 
which  he  may  never  forget.  Less  than  two  weeks  ago  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  College  stopped  me  on  the  street  to 
say  that  such  glimpses  of  wise  and  faithful  social  service  had 
given  direction  and  enlargement  to  his  whole  career;  and  in 
his  name  and  that  of  many  other  such  men  I  thank  the 

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School  for  what  it  has  quite  unconsciously  and  indirectly 
taught. 

There  is  a  still  larger  range  of  indebtedness  to  the  work  of 
the  School  which  should  be  gratefully  acknowledged  to-day. 
It  is  the  gain  in  self-respect  and  civic  pride  attained  by  the 
Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  through  maintaining  here 
what  the  most  experienced  expert  of  our  community  in 
social  reform  has  called  "the  most  illustrious  institution  of 
its  class  in  the  world."  There  are  many  undertakings  and 
achievements  in  which  this  community  takes  satisfaction; 
its  Puritan  history;  its  great  names  in  literature  and  poetry; 
its  parks,  schools  and  universities;  but  in  these  days  of  social 
service  the  most  impressive  fact  of  local  history  is  the  fact 
that  modern  scientific  philanthropy,  so  far  as  the  United 
States  is  concerned,  here  had  its  beginnings,  and  has  created 
institutions  and  organizations  which  are  famous  all  over  the 
world  as  monuments  of  wise  relief.  The  work  of  Dorothea 
Dix  for  the  insane;  the  plans  of  Joseph  Tuckerman  in  dis- 
tricting and  classifying  charity;  and  more  than  all  the  career 
of  Dr.  Howe  among  the  blind  and  the  feeble-minded,  make 
the  first  chapter  in  any  history  of  American  philanthropy; 
and  the  institutions  thus  initiated  are  among  the  local  monu- 
ments which  foreign  visitors  concerned  with  these  subjects 
wish,  first  of  all,  to  see. 

There  is,  moreover,  one  special  characteristic  of  this  School 
which  is  of  peculiar  interest  for  the  present  time  and  which 
teaches  a  lesson  that  the  present  age  much  needs  to  hear. 
Nothing  is  just  now  more  conspicuous  in  national  and  inter- 
national affairs  than  a  resurgence  of  thoughts  of  war  and  of 
vast  preparations  for  war,  and  of  watchful  waiting  which  is 
indistinguishable  from  war,  and  of  correspondingly  active 
schemes  for  the  abolition  of  war.     What  to  do  with  the 

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fighting  instinct;  how  to  get  rid  of  it,  or  how  to  find  a  sub- 
stitute for  it,  is  the  problem  of  the  time;  and  in  spite  of 
Hague  Tribunals  and  Peace  Commissions  and  vast  endow- 
ments the  instinct  of  militarism  seems  undiminished  in  its 
force.  My  beloved  colleague,  William  James,  once  proposed 
that  every  young  man  should  be  drafted  by  compulsion  into 
an  army  of  social  service  and  be  forced  to  work  at  digging 
drains,  carrying  garbage,  and  nursing  the  sick,  and  to  satisfy 
his  military  passion  by  enlisting  for  a  war  against  disease  or 
dirt  or  crime.  But  is  it  not  possible  to  find  such  substitutes 
for  war  without  waiting  for  this  impossible  and  Utopian 
socialism?  May  not  the  soldier's  courage  and  endurance  be 
applied  to  helping  people  instead  of  to  killing  them?  May 
it  not  be  as  brave  to  be  a  saviour  as  it  is  to  be  a  soldier? 
The  answer  to  this  question,  for  which  this  generation,  with 
its  great  navies  and  enlarging  armies  and  new  instruments 
of  destruction,  is  feverishly  waiting,  is  given  in  the  history  of 
this  place.  Dr.  Howe,  the  most  picturesque  and  romantic 
figure  in  the  history  of  American  philanthropy,  in  whom,  as 
his  biographer  said,  were  combined  "the  qualities  of  Sir 
Galahad  and  the  Good  Samaritan,"  was  from  the  beginning 
to  the  end  of  his  career  a  soldier.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  he  abandoned  his  professional  prospects  to  sail,  like 
a  Crusader  to  the  East,  where  for  five  years  he  fought  with 
the  Greeks  against  Turkish  oppression.  When  in  1832  he 
returned  to  Boston,  and  was  met  one  day  in  the  street  by 
two  trustees  of  the  newly  organized  Asylum  for  the  Blind 
who  said:  —  "Here  is  the  very  man  we  want,"  it  was,  his 
daughter  writes,  "a  meeting  of  flint  and  steel;  the  spark  was 
struck  directly."  The  same  martial  instinct,  which  had  flamed 
up  for  the  cause  of  Greece,  sprang  forth  again  to  serve  the 
cause  of  the  afflicted.     The  same  gallantry  which  smiled  at 

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incarceration  in  a  Prussian  prison  spurred  this  modern  knight 
to  the  rescue  of  Laura  Bridgman  from  her  prison  of  flesh. 
It  was,  he  said,  "as  though  a  person  were  in  a  deep,  dark,  still 
pit,  and  that  I  was  letting  down  a  cord  and  dangling  it  about, 
in  hopes  that  clinging  to  it  she  might  be  drawn  up  into  the 
light  of  day."  The  same  soldierly  daring  which  first  faced 
Turkish  bullets,  faced  the  hostile  legislature  of  Massachu- 
setts, where  one  of  his  first  Reports  on  the  feeble-minded 
was  met  by  the  comment  that  it  was  a  report,  "  not  only  on 
idiots,  but  by  one."  The  very  titles  that  were  given  him  in 
his  philanthropic  life  were  the  titles  of  a  soldier:  —  "The 
happy  warrior;"  "The  Chevalier;"  "The  good  knight." 

Here,  then,  is  the  supreme  teaching  of  this  famous  School. 
However  admirable  may  be  its  technical  training,  and  how- 
ever complete  are  these  spacious  and  beautiful  buildings,  the 
Institution  is  essentially  a  great  monument  of  civic  idealism; 
a  witness  of  the  possibilities  of  heroism  devoted  to  the  re- 
demptive work  of  social  service;  an  evidence  that,  as  Milton 
said  to  Cromwell,  "  Peace  hath  her  victories  no  less  renown'd 
than  war."  What  an  admonition  and  inspiration,  then,  is 
here  for  the  successive  generations,  who  may  discover  in 
works  like  these  the  place  of  a  soldier  in  a  time  of  peace,  and 
the  joy  of  sacrifice  for  a  task  which  comes,  not  to  destroy 
but  to  fulfil!  Never  was  the  opportunity  for  soldierly  daring 
greater  than  in  many  a  modern  exploit  of  medical  research 
or  of  missionary  zeal.  A  soldier  runs  occasional  risk  at  an 
outpost,  but  for  most  of  his  days  he  is  drilling,  waiting,  and 
polishing  his  arms;  while  many  a  wage-earner  risks  his  life 
any  hour,  on  the  end  of  a  cantilever,  or  the  top  of  a  sky- 
scraper, or  at  throttle  of  an  engine,  or  in  the  depth  of  a  mine. 
It  is  exciting  to  destroy  life  at  the  risk  of  one's  own,  but  it 
is  not  less  exhilarating,  and  may  involve  much  greater  risk, 

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to  save  life  at  the  risk  of  one's  own.  It  takes  courage  to 
conquer  savages  with  guns;  but  it  takes  much  more  courage 
to  conquer  them  with  the  sword  of  the  spirit.  It  is  heroic 
to  lead  a  charge  in  battle;  but  it  is  much  more  heroic  to  let 
a  mosquito  settle  on  one's  hand  and  to  die  of  yellow  fever, 
that  the  world  may  be  delivered  from  a  scourge  more  terrible 
than  war.  That  is  the  call  of  the  present  age  to  the  spirit 
of  the  soldier;  a  summons  not  to  shed  blood,  but  to  transmit 
blood;  a  career  of  modest  and  self-eflfacing  service  which  may 
not  even  know  that  it  is  as  brave  as  that  of  any  soldier,  but 
which  in  the  end  may  deserve  some  such  w^ords  as  Whittier 
wrote  of  Dr.  Howe:  — 

Knight  of  a  better  era, 
Without  reproach  or  fear! 
Said  I  not  well  that  Bayards 
And  Sidneys  stUl  are  here? 

President  Appleton:  —  It  is  fitting  that  you  should 
hear  from  a  product  of  the  institution.  The  next 
speaker  was  a  student  of  ours  from  1882  to  1888  when 
he  entered  Amherst,  graduating  from  there  in  1892 
and  from  the  Harvard  Law  School  in  1897.  He  has 
been  City  Solicitor  of  New  Bedford,  where  he  is  a 
successful  practicing  lawyer.  I  now  present  to  you 
the  alumnus  chosen  to  represent  our  school  and  work, 
William  B.  Perry,  Esq. 

Address  (in  Part)  of  William  B.  Perry,  Esq. 
Mr.  President,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  and  pupils  of  this 
school:    It  is  my  privilege  to  come  to-day  to  this  Institution 
and  take  a  small  part  in  the  exercises  of  this  occasion.    You 

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may  imagine  my  emotions  as  I  contemplate  the  new  order  of 
things  upon  my  first  visit  to  this  place.  The  contrast  be- 
tween the  old  and  new  school  makes  a  very  strong  impres- 
sion. It  is  with  rare  pleasure  that  I  walk  through  these 
spacious  grounds  and  attractive  buildings,  so  thoroughly 
equipped  for  the  use  and  training  of  the  pupils  of  this  school. 
All  those  who  have  labored  in  this  undertaking  may  justly 
feel  pride  and  satisfaction  in  what  has  been  accomplished 
and  their  services  are  worthy  of  our  grateful  recognition. 

This  Institution  with  its  improved  facilities  is  now  entering 
upon  a  new  period  of  prosperity  and  usefulness  in  fitting 
men  and  women  without  vision  to  go  out  into  the  world 
and  become  useful  and  self-supporting  members  of  society. 
Under  the  most  favorable  conditions  this  work  is  full  of 
great  difficulty.  It  is  a  stupendous  task  to  prepare  sightless 
men  and  women  to  earn  their  living  in  competition  with 
normal  members  of  society.  The  success  of  such  a  plan 
must  have  appeared  extremely  doubtful  to  the  pioneers  in 
this  undertaking.  To  me  it  seems  almost  incredible  that 
anyone  could  have  had  the  courage  to  have  established  such 
a  school.  It  seems  proper  at  this  time  that  we  dedicate 
these  buildings  to  the  memory  of  the  persons,  who  had  the 
courage,  faith,  and  devotion  to  the  cause  of  the  blind,  to 
inaugurate  this  great  work. 

In  order  to  attain  the  end  aimed  at  by  the  school,  every 
possible  help  is  needed.  Nothing  that  promises  assistance 
should  be  lightly  disregarded.  These  grounds,  these  build- 
ings and  their  complete  equipment,  will  undoubtedly  prove 
a  new  aid  of  great  value  in  the  successful  training  of  these 
young  people.  A  gain  has  been  made  that  can  hardly  be 
overestimated.  The  teaching  force  of  this  school  is  fully 
justified   in  feeling  that  its   efforts   will   be   rendered   more 

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effective  by  reason  of  these  increased  facilities.  The  new 
school  affords  the  pupils  additional  means  of  self-culture  that 
will  insure  a  larger  measure  of  success. 

In  closing  I  wish  to  say  a  few  words  of  encouragement  to 
the  members  of  the  school.  You  will  not  find  it  easy  to 
make  your  way  in  the  world.  Your  limitations  will  put  you 
at  a  disadvantage  with  your  more  fortunate  competitors. 
Your  best  hope  of  overcoming  this  inequality  is  in  the  fullest 
development  of  your  faculties.  You  must  strive  to  excel  in 
physical  attainment,  intellectual  power,  and  moral  worth. 
Whatever  you  do,  stamp  it  with  your  best  endeavors.  Supe- 
riority in  these  respects  will  weigh  against  your  disability. 
Above  all,  see  to  it  that  you  cultivate  a  spirit  that  will  not 
yield;  but  will  press  forward  unceasingly  through  rough  or 
steep.  "The  race  is  not  always  to  the  swift,"  and  you  may 
run  your  course  with  confidence  as  to  the  result. 


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MID-YEAR  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

IN  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at  Watertown, 

Thursday  Evening,   February   12,   1914,  at  8.15  o'clock. 

Part  One. 
The  Heavens  are  telling.    From  the  "  Creation, "        .       .        Haydn 

AveVemm, Mozart 

Hymn  to  the  Madonna, Kremser-Spicker 

TheSUentSea, Neidlinger 

Glory  to  God, Augusto  Rotoli 

(a)  Silent  Night, Michael  Haydn 

(&)  Sleep,  Holy  Babe. 

Sing,  0  Heavens, Berthold  Tours 

Part  Two. 

Hiawatha's  Wedding  Feast,  a  cantata  for  chorus 

with  tenor  solo, S.  Coleridge-Taylor 

The  choir  will  be  assisted  by 

Mrs.    Louise    Allard    Maynard,    Soprano,    and    Mr.    Loriston 
Stockwell,  Bass. 


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1832-1914. 
GRADUATING    EXERCISES   OF   THE    PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 
Thursday,  June  25,  1914,  10.30  a.m. 

Program. 

Organ,  Trio  in  F, Merkel 

Prelude  and  Fugue  in  E  Minor, Bach 

Malcolm  L.  Cobb 

Chorus,  Epilog  from  "The  Golden  Legend,"         .       .       .      Sullivan 

Essays : 
The  Problem  of  the  Child,     .       .       .  Arthur  Francis  Sullivan 

Growth  of  the  Post  Office  Department,       .       .     Maurice  I.  Tynan 
Aspects  of  Recent  Social  Growth,        .       .        John  Warren  Cowan 

Girls' Glee  Club,  "Song  at  Suru-ise," Manney 

The  Power  of  Music, Francis  Aloysius  Conner 

Development  and  Significance  of  Organized  Labor, 

Jacob  Wallockstein 
The  Panama  Canal  and  its  Problem,  .       .       Peter  Joseph  Salmon 

Address, F.  E.  Crawford,  Esq. 

Presentation  of  Diplomas  and  Certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-third  Psahn,"       .       .       .       .  Neidlinger 

Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1914. 


Francis  Aloysius  Conner. 
John  Warren  Cowan. 
Peter  Joseph  Salmon. 


Arthur  Francis  Sullivan 
Maurice  I.  Tynan. 
Jacob  Wallockstein. 


Pianoforte  Normal  Department. 
Harold  B.  Deming.  |  Annie  May  Kennedy. 

Alison  Pierce  Viles. 

Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 
Harold  B.  Deming.  |  Francesco  lerardi. 

Arthur  G.  Pitman. 

Class  Colors:  Purple  and  Gold.  Class  Flower:  White  Carnation. 

Class  Motto:  Nihil  sine  Lahore. 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals    and 

Operas. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  C.  A.  Ellis 
for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts  in 
Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  Theodore  N.  Vail,  for  the  use  of  his  opera  box 
for  a  performance  of  "Rigoletto,"  and  again  for  one  of 
"La  Boheme." 

To  the  Symphony  Hall  Management,  for  fifteen  tickets 
for  a  recital  by  Jacques  Thibaud,  violinist. 

To  Miss  Grace  Senior  Brearley,  for  twenty-two  tickets 
for  her  pianoforte  recital  at  Steinert  Hall. 

To  Mr.  Felix  Fox,  for  twenty-two  tickets  for  his  piano- 
forte recital  at  Steinert  Hall. 

To  Miss  Edith  B.  Dalton,  for  an  invitation  to  ten  to 
attend  the  spring  annual  concert  of  the  American  Music 
Society  at  Beckton  Hall. 

IL  —  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals    and    Lectures 
IN  our  Hall. 
To  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  for  a  lecture  on  "Wit  and  humor." 
To  Mr.  Havrah  Hubbard,  assisted  by  Mr.  Baxter,  pianist, 

for  an  illustrated  lecture  on  "Die  Meistersinger,"  and  again 

for   one   on    "Hansel    und    Gretel"    and    "The    Secret    of 

Susanne." 

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To  Prof.  William  F.  Garcelon,  for  a  lecture  on  "Physical 
education  and  its  mental  effect." 

To  Miss  Helen  M.  Winslow,  for  a  lecture  on  "Literary 
Boston." 

To  Mr.  Earl  Ovington,  for  a  lecture  on  "Aviation." 

To  Miss  Marion  Chapin,  for  an  organ  recital. 

To  Principal  Gibbs  and  boys  of  the  Allen  School  for 
Boys,  West  Newton,  for  a  musicale. 

in.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Periodicals  and  News- 
papers. 
American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed).  Christian  Register,  Christian  Science  Jour- 
nal, Christian  Science  Sentinel,  Colorado  Index,  Eastern  and 
Western  Review,  Harper's  Weekly,  Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine 
for  the  Blind  (embossed),  The  Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  New 
England  Journal  of  Education,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb 
Animals,  The  Silent  Worker,  The  Washingtonian,  The  Well- 
Spring,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman's  Journal,  Youth's 
Companion. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments   for    Gifts   and    Services. 

Dr.  E.  G.  Brackett,  Dr.  George  Loring  Tobey  and 
Dr.  Henry  Hawkins,  for  professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary 
and  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  for  care  and  treat- 
ment of  pupils. 

Mr.  Richard  M.  Saltonstall,  for  a  rowboat,  fitted  with 
four  pairs  of  oars  and  rowlocks. 

Mrs.  Austin  A.  Wheelock,  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies, 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson,  Miss  Mary  C.  Learned,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Atwood,  Miss  Louise  Kelley,  the  Framing- 

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HAM  Woman's  Club,  the  Framingham  and  Natick  D.  A.  R. 
chapters,  and  Mr.  Dennis  A.  Reardon,  executor  of  the 
Blaisdell  estate,  for  gifts  of  money. 

Mrs.  Asa  Warren  Jacquith,  for  two  rustic  seats. 

Mr.  E.  D.  GuRNEY,  for  a  guitar. 

Miss  Blanche  Barrett,  for  two  pictures. 

Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  for  a  sleigh  ride. 

Mrs.  J.  Chipman  Gray,  Mr.  Fr.vnk  McLaughlin,  Mr. 
Harold  Chesson,  Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley  and  Mrs. 
Harold  J.  Coolidge,  for  fruit,  plants,  confectionery  and 
ice-cream. 

Dr.  John  Dixwell,  curator  of  the  Hospital  Music  Fund, 
and  Miss  Patty  C.  Flint,  assisted  by  Miss  Belcher  and 
Miss  Blodgett,  for  entertainments. 

The  Watertown  Free  Public  Library,  for  eleven 
volumes  of  the  "  Annual  Literary  Index." 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS   AT   THE   UPPER   SCHOOL. 


Abbott,  Edna  M. 
Abbott,  Josephine  E. 
Anderson,  Elizabeth  D. 
Anderson,  Muriel  C. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Billow,  Ruth  K. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Brannick,  Elizabeth. 
Brooks,  Edna  S. 
Cohen,  Alice. 
Cross,  Helen  A. 
Daiey,  Gertrude  C. 
Davenport,  Anna  A. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Duffy,  Nelly. 
Duke,  Marion  W. 
Elder,  Gladys  M. 
Essensa,  Alice  J. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Fishman,  Eva. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
Forrest,  Elizabeth. 
French,  Agnes  G. 
Gadbois,  Roselma. 
Gagnon,  Albertina. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Galvin,  Rose. 
Gorman,  Marie  T. 
Gould,  Viola  M. 
Gray,  Nettie  C. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 


Guiney,  Julia. 
Hamilton,  Annie  A. 
Harlow,  Gertrude  S. 
Harutunian,  Mary. 
Hill,  Lila  N. 
HoUowell,  Alice  G. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Jackson,  Harriet  B. 
Jarvis,  Beatrice. 
Keary,  Helen  M. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kimball,   Eleanor. 
LaCroix,  Alcine  E. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Lapham,  Ethel  M. 
Levesque,  Mary  A. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Martin,  Lea. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Miller,  Margaret. 
Minahan,  Annie  E. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Mueller,  Frances  M.  A. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Parcher,  F.  Mabel. 
Perella,  Julia. 
Pilling,  Agnes. 
Pinto,  Minnie  P. 


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Ross,  Lena. 
Sibley,  Marian  C. 
Smith,  Elena. 
Smith,  Gladys  B. 
Stearns,  Gladys  L. 
Stevens,  Ethel  M. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Stewart,  Alice  L. 
Stone,  Cora  M. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thompson,  Mary. 
Vilaine,  Mary  C. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Welch,  Ellen. 
Wood,  Adeline  H. 
Abbott,  Charles  A. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bonasera,  Joseph. 
Booth,  Willard  E. 
Brooks,  Harold  D. 
Brown,  A.  Stanley. 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Chapman,  John  C. 
Chatterton,  Percival. 
Clarke,  Jerold  P. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Conboy,  George  A. 
Connor,  Francis. 
Cooney,  John. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
Devine,  Joseph  P. 
Dow,  Basil  E. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Esslinger,  Bradford  G. 
Farria,  John  M. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Ferron,  Homer. 


Fitzgerald,  James  P. 
Fontana,  Dominic. 
Freeman,  Sylvester. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gifford,  Shirley  M.  A. 
Grant,  Alfred. 
Greene,  George. 
Hadley,  Kenneth  G. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Hamilton,  Oren  V. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Hennick,  Harold. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N. 
Howard,  Thomas. 
Immeln,  Hermann  M. 
Irish,  Clifford  H. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Leavitt,  Clyde. 
Lemieux,  Osarrio. 
Lindsey,  Perry  R.  S. 
Mack,  Francis  J. 
McBride,  Thomas  T. 
McFarlane,  James. 
Miller,  Lewis  W. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Morrill,  Warren  A. 
Phelps,  I.  Walter, 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Reeves,  W.  Stanley. 
Roberts,  Chester  N. 
Robertson,  D.  Olin. 
Robertson,  Robert  J. 
Ryan,  Frank. 
Salesses,  Adrian. 
Salmon,  Peter  J. 
Sarsfield,  Henry  I. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Sharp,  William  F. 


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Spence,  Samuel  J. 
Sullivan,  Arthur  F. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Tobin,  Paul. 
Tynan,  Maurice  I. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 


Wallockstein,  Jacob. 
Ward,  Frederick. 
Weaver,  John  J. 
Wilcox,  J.  Earl. 
Yott,  Louis. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE   LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Burnham,  Ruth  E. 
Byk,  Stella. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Cassavaugh,  Nellie  J. 
Chesson,  Marion. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 

Connors,  Margaret. 

Davis,  Mary. 

Davis,  Ruth  M. 

Desundo,  May  J. 

Doucha,  Armen. 

Doyle,  Mary  E. 

Dufresne,  Irene. 

Elliott,  Ethel  S. 

Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 

Freeman,  Edith  M. 

Gilbert,  Eva  V. 

Hanley,  Mary. 

Hilton,  Charlotte. 

Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 

Jeflferson,  Annie. 

Keefe,  Mildred. 

Kelley,  Beulah  C. 

Lanoue,  Edna. 


Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Lyon,  Hazel. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Perry,  Gertrude. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Rissman,  Lillian. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 

Samson,  Bertha. 

Santos,  Emily. 

Savage,  Mary. 

Shea,  Mary  E, 

Siebert,  Bessie  L. 

Simmons,  Bertha. 

Skipp,  Doris  M. 

Spencer,  Olive  E. 

Thebeau,  Marie. 

Uhrig,  Mary  G. 

Weathers,  Dorothy. 

Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 

Wilson,  R.  Edris. 

Antonucci,  Alberto. 

Ayer,  Wm.  Leo. 

Boulter,  Nelson  S. 

Conley,  Edward. 


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Crowell,  Arthur  A. 
Cullen,  William. 
Curley,  Joseph  H. 
Delouchery,  A.  Ivan. 
Depoian,  Hrant  G. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Dibble,  Vernon  C. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Duber,  Karol  J. 
Duffy,  Eugene  J. 
Earle,  Clarence  H. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Goodwin,  Amerson. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanaford,  Clarence  E. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hennick,  Dominick  A. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 


Lillie,  Karl  C. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  L. 
Maziall,  J.  Herbert. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Medeiros,  Joseph. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Poline,  John  J. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Riddell,  David. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Sliney,  Maurice. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Thibeault,  Arthur. 
Thibeault,  George. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS    FOR  THOMAS    STRINGER. 


From  September  1,  1913,  to  August  31,  1914. 

Seabury,  The  Misses,  New  Bedford,  Mass.,       .          .          .          .          .       $5  00 
Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D., 25  00 


$30  00 
Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer, 
[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  Uving,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  bUnd  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend, $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,         .......     100  00 

Primary  Department  of  the  Sunday  School  of  the  First  Methodist 
Protestant  Church  of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  through  Mrs.  William 
McCracken,        .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         5  00 

$155  00 


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Boston,  Mass.,  November  11,  1914. 

Trustees   of  Perkins   Institvtion   and    Massachusetts   School  for   the 

Blind. 
Gentlemen  :  —  In  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  Trustees,  we 
have  employed  Edwin  L.  Pride  and  Co.  (Inc.),  Certified  Public  Ac- 
countants, to  audit  the  books  of  the  Treasurer  and  the  accounts  at 
the  Institution,  and  transmit  herewith  their  report. 

Yours  very  truly, 

WARREN  MOTLEY, 

FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  Jr., 

Auditors. 

Boston,  November  11,  1914. 

Messrs.  Waeren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen:  —  At  your  request  we  have  audited  the  accounts  of 
WUham  Endicott,  Jr.,  Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  August  31,  1914.  We  have  found  that  all  income  from 
investments  and  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  securities  during  the  year 
have  been  accounted  for  and  that  the  donations,  subscriptions  and 
miscellaneous  receipts  as  shown  by  the  books  have  been  deposited  in 
bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Institution. 

We  have  vouched  all  disbursements,  checked  the  postings  and 
footings  of  the  various  general  books  of  account,  and  verified  the 
bank  balances  as  at  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year. 

We  have  made  an  examination  of  the  stocks  and  bonds  on  hand 
in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  which  were  found  to  agree  with  the 
books. 

We  hereby  certify  that  the  attached  statements  of  the  Treasurer 
correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
August  31,  1914. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDWIN  L.  PRIDE  AND  CO.  (Inc.), 

Certified  Public  Accountants. 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1914:  — 


House,  20  Wall  St.,  Charlestown, 
Houses,  64  and  66  Walker  St.,  Charlestown, 
Unimproved  land,  South  Boston, 
Building,  205-207  Congress  St., 
Building,  58-60  South  St 


Real  Estate  used  by  the  Institution. 
Workshop   buildings,  545-549  East   Fourth   St. 

South  Boston 

Real  Estate,  Watertown 


Stocks  and  Bonds. 
5  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co., 

4  shares  Amherst  Gas  Co., 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     . 

5  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust, 
16  shares  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  Co.,  common, 
2  shares  Boston  &  Providence  R.R.  Co.,  . 
9  shares  Boston  Personal  Property  Trust, 

2  shares  Boston  Real  Estate  Trust,   . 

3  shares  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Co., 
1  share  Fitch  burg  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Co.,    . 

4  shares  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  preferred, 
3    shares   New   England   Telephone   &   Telegraph 

Co 


4  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R 
Co., 


Book  Value. 

$2,700  00 

5,200  00 

1,000  00 

75,800  00 

121,500  00 

$206,200  00 

$8,000  00 

672,429  63 

680,429  63 

$595  00 

560  00 

25,000  00 

500  00 

840  00 

510  00 

990  00 

2,200  00 

781  50 

118  00 

384  00 

399  75 


93  shares  United  Shoe  Machinery  Co.,  common 

3  shares  Walter  Baker  Co.,  Ltd., 

4  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,   . 
2  shares  Western  Real  Estate  Trust, 
6  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,    . 
$5,000    American    Telephone    &    Telegraph    Co., 

collateral  trust,  4s,  1929, 

$25,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  due  1934, 
$15,000  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Co.,  5%  notes, 

due  July  1918, 

$5,000     Central     District     Telephone     Co.,     1st 

mortgage  5s,  due  December  1943, 
$37,000    Chicago,    Burlington    &    Quincy    R.R., 

general  mortgage,  4s,  1958, 

$25,000  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.,   1st  refunding, 

4s,  1943 


Amounts  carried  forward, $149,721 


315 

50 

6,045 

00 

1,200 

00 

272 

00 

264 

00 

378 

00 

4,450 

00 

24,500 

00 

14,418 

75 

5,000 

00 

35,500 

00 

24,500 

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$149,721 

50  $886,629  63 

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Book  Value. 
Amounts  hrougU  forward $149,721  50     $886,629  63 

$25,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture.  4s,  1931 22,857  14 

$25,000  Long  Island  R.R..  refunding.  4s,  1949,  .  24,000  00 
$25,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies.  4^s,  1931,  24,497  50 

$25,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R., 

debenture.  4s,  1934 23.000  00 

$40  000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

debenture,  4s.  1955 37.000  00 

$40  000    New    York,    Ontario    &    Western    R.R., 

4;.1992. ^-        38.000  00 

$15,000  Peoria   &   Northwestern   R.R.   Co..   Z\s, 

1926 13,500  00 

$15  000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible.  Zh», 

1915  14,000  00 

$25,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  43,  1932,     .        .        24,000  00 

370,5/6  14 

.     , ,  .        .  8.095  58 

Accounts  receivable. 

Petty  cash  funds, 

J^^^^--  .      $27,64122 

^''^Z 2,335  16 

E.E.  Allen.  Trustee, '''''  31,084  31 

Works  Department.  ,o  ^oo  qk 

Total  assets. 

Music  Department. 

One  three-manual  pipe  organ, $9,000  00 

One  Aeolian  grand ^*^^  00 

Two  reed  organs, n  nn 

Fifty-eight  pianofortes 10,300  00 

Thirty-seven  orchestral  instruments,         .        .        •  1-000  00 

Music  library ''"'^  "'          24,295  00 

Library  Department. 

Books  in  common  print $10,116  66 

Books  in  embossed  print 29,768  50 

Special  library _11^508_41          ^^^^^  ^^ 

Miscellaneous . 

School  furniture  and  apparatus $7,137  44 

Household  furniture •  O'^^O  98 

Provisions  and  supplies 1,500  00 

Boys' shop 478  91 

Stable  and  tools 1^"  ""          ^^  ^3^  33 

$1,405,134  41 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 
General  funds  of  the  Institution, 
Stephen  Fairbanks  fund, 

Harris  fund, 

Richard  Perkins  fund, 
Stoddard  Capen  fund,  . 
In  memoriam,  Mortimer  C.  Ferris, 
Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft  fund,     . 
Frank  Davison  Rust  fund,  . 
Mary  Lowell  Stone  fund,     . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund, 
Accrued  interest  on  $1,000, 

Howe  Memorial  Press  fund, 


$11,000  00 
12  44 


Legacies:  — 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker,  .... 

Calvin  W.  Barker, 

Miss  Lucy  A.  Barker, 

Francis  Bartlett, 

Miss  Mary  Bartol, 

Thompson  Baxter, 

Robert  C.  Billings, 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind), 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 

William  T.  Bolton 

George  W.  Boyd, 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 

J.  Edward  Brown, 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 

Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Colburn, 

David  E.  Cummings, 

I.  W.  Danforth 

Joseph  Descalzo, 

John  W.  Dix 

Mary  E.  Eaton 

Martha  A.  French, 

Thomas  Gaffield, 

Albert  Glover, 

Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind), 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 


$363,625  64 

10,000  00 

80,000 

00 

20,000 

00 

13,770  00 

1,000 

00 

6,000 

00 

2,500 

00 

2,000 

00 

11,012 

44 

1,131 

57 

$3,000  00 

2,500 

00 

1,859 

32 

5,953 

21 

2,500 

00 

300 

00 

322 

50 

25,000  00 

4,000 

00 

5,832 

66 

555 

22 

5,000 

00 

268,391 

24 

10,508 

70 

100,000  00 

5,000  00 

5,000 

00 

7,723 

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2,500  00 

1,000 

00 

10.000 

00 

2,500  00 

164 

40 

6,450 

00 

1,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

5,000 

00 

6,471 

23 

Amounts  carried  forward, $493,531  55     $511,039  65 


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Amounts  brought  forward $493,531  55     $511,039  65 

Charles  H.  Hayden 20,000  00 

John  C.  Haynes, 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood 500  00 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 3,708  32 

Benjamin  Humphrey 25,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchinson, 2,156  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield, 7,951  48 

Mrs.  Susan  B.  Lyman 4,809  78 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .        .  15,000  00 

Stephen  W.  Marston, 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam 1-000  00 

George  Francis  Parkman 50,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Charlotte  B.  Richardson 40,507  00 

Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Miss  Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust, 2,640  00 

William  A.  Rust 1.500  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Mary  W.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor, 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner, 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Ann  White  Vose, 12,994  00 

H.  W.  Wadleigh 1,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait, 3,000  00 

Harriet  Ware, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  P.  Weld, 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson, 543  75 

Thomas  Wyman 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young, 5,000  00 

782,687  78 

Loans  payable.  Kindergarten, 110,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 1,406  98 

$1,405,134  41 


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Donations,  Institution  Account. 


Angier,  Mrs.  George, $5  00 

Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P., 10  00 

Ferris,  Miss  Mary  E 10  00 

Gillis,  Mrs.  Mona,         .        , 9  00 

Hemenway,  Miss  Clara, 100  00 

Jenks,  Miss  Caroline  E., 5  00 

Pratt,  R.  M 100  00 

Seabury,  The  Misses 25  00 

Sears,  Miss  Phyllis 25  00 

White,  C.  J 25  00 

$314  00 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 5,075  50 


$5,389  50 


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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1914:  — 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

Stocks  and  Bonds.  Book  Value, 

400  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  $55,441  53 

95  shares  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,       .        .        .  23,038  87 

10  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust,       ...  900  00 

50  shares  General  Electric  Co., 5,505  12 

15  shares  Suffolk  Real  Estate  Trust,          .        .        .  15,000  00 

100  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       .  8,737  00 

100  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,  .  .  5,962  50 
$5,000   American   Coal   Product   Co.,    6%    notes, 

July  1,  1916 4,875  00 

$30,000   American    Telephone   &    Telegraph    Co., 

coUateral  trust,  4s,  1929, 26,950  00 

$2,000     Chicago,     Burlington     &     Quincy     R.R. 

(Illinois  Division),  3§s,  1949, 1,800  00 

$10,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 9,300  00 

$10,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s,  1921,  10,000  00 
$25,000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  3Js, 

1915, 23,850  00 

$10,000  St.  Paul,  Mmneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R. 

(Montana  Extension),  4s,  1937 9,000  00 

$10,000  Seattle  Electric  Co.,  5s,  1930,       .        .        .  10,400  00 

$210,760  02 

Accounts  receivable, 300  96 

Cash :  — 

Treasurer, $1,559  43 

Director, 130  68 

1,690  11 

Stock  and  machinery, $2,699  00 

Books  (bound  and  unbound)  and  sheet  music,         .  5,280  00 

Electrotype  and  stereotype  plates,     ....  24,277  00 


32,256  00 
$245,007  09 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 

PRINTING   FUND. 

General  funds  of  the  Department,      ....    $228,700  49 
The  Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  fund   (bequest  of 

Mary  M.  S.  Spaulding), 5,000  00 

$233,700  49 

Legacies:  — 

Joseph  H.  Center, $1,000  00 

Augusta  Well, 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable 16  60 

$245,007  09 


Works  Department. 

Balance  Sheet — August  31,  1914. 

Assets. 

Cash $595  23 

Accounts  receivable .  5,955  63 

Stock  on  hand,  material,  etc 4,361  99 

$10,912  85 

Tools  and  equipment 2,510  00 

$13,422  85 
Liabilities. 
Balance  due  Institution:  — 

Current  account, $13,353  41 

Net  profit  for  year, 69  44 

$13,422  85 

Profit  and  Loss  Account. 

Revenue. 
Sales,  repairs,  etc ,      .        $32,521  10 

Expenditures. 

Materials  used, $13,675  33 

Salaries  and  wages, 14,842  66 

General  expense, 3,724  56 

32,242  55 

Gross  profit, $278  55 

Less :  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,      .  $75  92 

Reserve  for  bad  debts, 133  19 

209  11 

Net  profit  for  year  ending  August  31,  1914,     ....  $6944 

76 


ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND  OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Institution. 

Meats  and  fish $3,951  73 

Milk  and  dairy  products, 4,017  48 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 1,398  35 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 708  93 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables, 1,621  30 

Ice, 229  92 

Laundry,  engine  room,  and  refrigerating  plant,       ....  494  76 

Light,  heat,  and  power, 6,026  07 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods, 748  82 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 396  15 

Salaries  and  wages, 35,940  89 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies, 189  71 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 852  86 

Expenses  on  property  let, 5,069  05 

Taxes  and  insurance, 1,629  51 

Repairs, 1,031  14 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 803  53 

Officers'  salaries, 5,414  66 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 554  65 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    .        .  163  12 

Stable  expenses, 133  30 

Bills  to  be  refunded 5,918  64 

New  furnishings  at  Watertown, 722  52 

Real  estate  and  buildings  at  Watertown, 221  47 

Extraordinary  expenses 1,070  00 

Sundry  expenses, 411  06 

Maintaining  Tuning  Department, 2,077  51 

Maintaining  Works  Department, 32,936  42 

$114,733  55 

Less  discounts  allowed, 85  58 

$114,647  97 


77 


ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND  OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Kindergarten. 

Meats  and  fish, $2,643  64 

Milk  and  dairy  products, 3,347  08 

Bread,  groceries,  etc 1,401  94 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 570  62 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables, 1,537  48 

Ice, 229  97 

Laundry,  engine  room,  and  refrigerating  plant,       .        .        .      ,  .  489  12 

Light,  heat,  and  power, 6,087  68 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods, 1,313  32 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 474  87 

Salaries  and  wages, 22,299  70 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies 447  78 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 362  57 

Expenses  on  property  let, 3,082  14 

Taxes  and  insurance, 1,408  53 

Repairs, 672  03 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 1,195  19 

Officers'  salaries,    .        .- 5,191  70 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 732  19 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    .        .  611  19 

Stable  expenses 133  42 

Bills  to  be  refunded, 576  91 

New  furnishings  at  Watertown, 2,444  25 

Real  estate  and  buildings  at  Watertown, 178  03 

Sundry  expenses, 15  33 

$57,446  68 

Less  discounts  allowed, 124  17 

$57,322  51 


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125,000  00 
110,000  00 

85,000  00 


$396,800  00 

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Stocks  and  Bonds. 

100  shares  Albany  Trust, $9,000  00 

304  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  41,943  80 

2  shares  Amherst  Gas  Co., 280  00 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred,     .        .  25,000  00 

2  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust,  ...  200  00 
10  shares  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  Co.,  common,  .  525  00 
7  shares  Boston  Personal  Property  Trust,  .  .  770  00 
4  shares  Central  Vermont  R.R.,  .  .  .  •  \  4  aoo  no 
$5,000  Central  Vermont  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1920,    .        .J 

3  shares  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Co,,       .        .  781  50 

2  shares  Fitchburg  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Co.,          .  236  00 

3  shares  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  preferred,  ...  288  00 
400  shares  General  Electric  Co.,         ....  58,672  49 

4  shares   New   England   Telephone   &   Telegraph 

Co., 533  00 

3  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R. 

Co., 236  62 

2  shares  Walter  Baker  Co.,  Ltd 800  00 

304  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       .  25,872  00 

2  shares  Western  Real  Estate  Trust,         ...  264  00 

6  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,  ...  378  00 
$15,000  American  Coal  Product  Co.,  6%   notes, 

July  1,  1916, 14,625  00 

$65,000   American    Telephone   &    Telegraph   Co., 

collateral  trust,  4s,  1929 57,850  00 

$65,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934,  .  63,500  00 
$50,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  5s,  October, 

1963, 52,864  25 

$20,000  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  4s,  1926,  .  .  .  19,000  00 
$50,000  Brooklyn  Rapid  Transit  Co.,  5%  notes, 

July  1918, 48,000  00 

$15,000     Central     District     Telephone     Co.,     1st 

mortgage,  5s,  due  December  1934,         .        .        .  15,000  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $441,019  66      $914,564  21 


81 


Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward $441,019  66     $914,564  21 

$13,000    Chicago,    Burlington    &    Quincy    R.R., 

general  mortgage,  4s,  1958, 12,500  00 

$23,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.,  (Illi- 
nois Division),  3|s,  1949, 20,000  00 

$10,000  Cleveland  Telephone  Co.,  5%  notes,  due 

May  15,  1916 9,950  00 

$25,000  Delaware  and  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding, 

4s,  1943 24,750  00 

$15,000  Fitchburg  R.R.,  4|s,  1928,    ....        15,000  00 

$30,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931, 28,000  00 

$75,000  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  4s,  1949,       .        73,000  00 

$5,000  Louisville  &  Jeffersonville  Bridge  Co.,  4s, 

1945 4,500  00 

$20,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4^s,  1931,  19,163  05 

$20,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R. 

(Lake  Shore),  collateral  trust,  3K  1998,       .        .        18,000  00 

$60,000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

4s,  1955, 55,000  00 

$100,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 
(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s, 
1921, 91,000  00 

$20,000  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.,  3|s,  1926,     .        18,000  00 

$15,000  Puget  Sound  Electric  Ry.,  1st.  consoli- 
dated, 5s,  1932 14,000  00 

$20,000  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R., 

4^s.  1933 20,000  00 

$25,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,     .        .        24,000  00 

887,882  71 

Loans  receivable,  Institution, 1 10,000  00 

Accounts  receivable 183  71 

Petty  cash  funds 150  00 

Cash :  — 

Treasurer $30,141  80 

Director 2,480  54 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 171  65 

32,793  99 

Music  Department. 

Sixteen  pianofortes, 4,000  00 

Miscellaneous. 
School  furniture  and  apparatus,         ....  $725  35 

Household  furniture 15,508  16 

Provisions  and  supplies, 800  00 

17,033  51 


$1,966,608  13 


82 


The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same :  — 

KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Kindergarten $541,507  30 

Mrs.  William  Appleton  fund 13,000  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  fund 500  00 

In  memory  of  William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,         .  1,000  00 

Miss  Helen  C.  Bradlee  fund 140,000  00 

Mrs.  M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  fund,         .        .  11,000  00 
Catherine   L.   Donnison  memorial   fund    (bequest 

of  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Swan) 1,000  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Eliza  James  (Bell)  Draper,       .  1,500  00 

Mrs.  Helen  Atkins  Edmands  fund 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Eugenia  F.  Farnham  fund,         ....  1,015  00 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Fay  fund 15,000  00 

Albert  Glover  fund 1,000  00 

In  memoriam  A.  A.  C., 600  00 

Moses  Kimball  fund 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  fund, 9,000  00 

Mrs.  Emeline  Morse  Lane  fund,         ....  1,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Matthews  fund 15,000  00 

Miss  Jeannie  Warren  Paine  fund,       ....  1,000  00 

George  F.  Parkman  fund, 3,500  00 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Potter  fund, 30,000  00 

John  M.  Rodocanachi  fund 2,250  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch  fund 8,500  00 

Memorial  to  Frank  Davison  Rust,     ....  14,100  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  Taber  fund, 622  81 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund, 5,666  95 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales  fund, 10,000  00 

In  memory  of  Ralph  Watson, 237  92 


$833,899  98 


Legacies:  — 

Emelie  Albee, $150  00 

Lydia  A.  Allen, 748  38 

Michael  Anagnos, 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey 500  00 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Miss  Mary  D.  Balfour, 100  00 

Sidney  Bartlett 10,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 


Amounts  carried  forward, $40,374  36      $833,899  98 

83 


Amounts  brought  forward, 

Robert  C.  Billings, 

Samuel  A.  Borden, 

Mrs.  Sarah  Bradford,    . 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown,     . 

Miss  Harriet  Tilden  Browne 

John  W.  Carter,     . 

Mrs.  Adeline  M.  Chapin, 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney,    . 

Mrs.  Helen  G.  Coburn, 

Charles  H.  Colbum,      . 

Anna  T.  Coolidge, 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis,    . 

Miss  Sarah  Silver  Cox, 

Miss  Susan  T.  Crosby, 

Miss  Caroline  T.  Downes, 

George  E.  Downes, 

Charles  H.  Draper, 

Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Dwight, 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 

Miss  Mary  Eveleth,      . 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Farwell, 

John  Foster,   . 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Gifford, 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 

Miss  Matilda  Goddard, 

Mrs.  Maria  L.  Gray, 

Mrs.  Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 

Mrs.  Josephine  S.  Hall, 

Mrs.  Olive  E.  Hayden, 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Hodges,  . 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden,  . 

Mrs.  Marion  D.  Hollingsworth 

Frances  H.  Hood, 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Jones,    . 

Mrs.  Maria  E.  Jones,    . 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Lamber,  . 

Charles  Larned,     . 

William  Litchfield, 

Mary  Ann  Locke, 

Robert  W.  Lord,    . 

Elisha  T.  Loring,  . 

Sophia  N.  Low, 

Augustus  D.  Manson,  . 

Miss  Sarah  L.  Marsh, 

Amounts  carried  forward. 


$40,374  36  $833,899  98 

10,000  00 
4,675  00 
100  00 
168,391  24 
6,130  07 
1,000  00 
2,000  00 
500  00 
400  00 
6,000  00 
9,980  10 
1,000  00 
45,138  16 
300  00 
5,000  00 
100  00 
12,950  00 
3,000  00 
23,934  13 
4,000  00 
1,000  00 
1,000  00 
500  00 
5,000  00 
7,931  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
300  00 
200  00 
5,157  75 
3,000  00 
4,622  45 
300  00 
2,360  67 
1,000  00 
100  00 
500  00 
935  95 
700  00 
5.000  00 
5,000  00 
5,874  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
1,000  00 
8,134  00 
1,000  00 


$420,588  88  $833,899  98 


84 


Amounts  brought  forward $420,588  88      $833,899  98 

Miss  Rebecca  S.  Melvin 23,545  55 

Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Abbie  Newell, 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis .  1,000  00 

Miss  Anna  R.  Palfrey 50  00 

Miss  Helen  M.  Parsons, 500  00 

Mrs.  Richard  Perkins, 10,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Mrs.  Caroline  S.  Pickman 1.000  00 

Mrs.  Josephine  L.  Hyde  Pope 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter 395,014  44 

Francis  S.  Pratt 100  00 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Jane  Roberts, 93,025  55 

Miss  Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Miss  Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Miss  Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

WiUiam  A.  Rust, 1.500  00 

Miss  Rebecca  Salisbury, 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  E.  Snow, 9.903  27 

Adelaide  Standish, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  P.  Sturgia 21,729  52 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser  fund 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer, 2.000  00 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Taber 1.000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Mrs.  Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  TUton 300  00 

Mrs.  Betsy  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Miss  Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Mrs.  Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,          .        .        .  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

The  May  Rosevear  White  fund 500  00 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Miss  Betsey  S.  WUder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $1,089,933  95      $833,899  98 


85 


Amounts  brought  forward $1,089,933  95     $833,899  98 

Miss  Mary  W.  Wiley, 150  00 

Miss  Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 

1,100,922  75 

Mortgage  note  payable, 30,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 1,785  40 


$1,966,608  13 


Donations,  Kindergarten  Account. 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K., $10  00 

Draper,  Mrs.  George  A., 

Duncan,  Mrs.  Susan  M., 

Gardner,  George  A., 

Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 

Hill,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,  by  C.  S.  Hill, 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union  Congrega- 
tional Church  of  Weymouth  and  Braintree,         .... 

Raj-mond,  Fairfield  Eager, 

Turner,  Miss  Abby  W.,        . 

$167  00 


50 

00 

3 

00 

50 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

18 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

86 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,   Mrs.   Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer :  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,685  00 

Donations, 1,931  50 

Cambridge  Branch, 269  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 92  00 

Ljom  Branch, 59  00 

Milton  Branch, 39  00 

$5,075  50 


87 


ANNUAL   SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $206  00 


Bradford,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    , 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,     . 
Brewer,  Mrs.  D.  C, 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S.,    . 
Brown,  Miss  Augusta  M., 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Brown,  Mr.  C.  H.  C,    . 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James,  . 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Burr,  Mrs.  Allston, 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Carpenter,  Mrs.  G.  A., 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Carter,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Cary,  Miss  EUen  S., 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  E.  D.,  . 
Chapman,   Miss  Jane  E.  C 
Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.,  . 
Cheney,  Mrs.  Arthur,    . 
Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C,   . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 
Clark,  Miss  Sarah  W.,   . 
Clement,  Mrs.  Hazen,    . 
Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Darius, 
Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex.,    . 
Codman,      Miss      Catherine 

Amory, 
Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 
Congdon,  Mrs.  A.  L.,     . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $206  00  Amount  carried  forward,    .  $455  00 


Abbott,  Miss  Adelaide  F., 

.       $5  00 

Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 

1  00 

Abbott,  Mrs.  J.,      . 

5  00 

Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 

5  00 

Alford,  Mrs.  0.  H., 

10  00 

Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.,  . 

3  00 

Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

5  00 

Ames,  Miss  Mary  S., 

25  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 

25  00 

Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 

1  00 

Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 

2  00 

Anthony,  Mrs.  S.  Reed, 

5  00 

Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 

3  00 

Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 

1  00 

Atkins,  Mrs.  Edwin  F., 

5  00 

Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P.,    . 

5  00 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 

2  00 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis,    . 

5  00 

Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 

2  00 

Baker,  Miss  S.  P.,  . 

5  00 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 

5  00 

Baldwin,  Mr.  E.  L., 

2  00 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 

5  00 

Bangs,  Mrs.  Francis  R., 

10  00 

Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  H., 

5  00 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 

10  00 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 

2  00 

Bates,  Mrs.  I.  Chapman, 

5  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G., 

2  00 

Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 

2  00 

Bigelow,  Mrs.  Alanson, 

1  00 

Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 

5  00 

Blake,  Mr.  Wm.  P., 

5  00 

Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 

2  00 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 

5  00 

Boynton,  Miss  Ella  F., 

5  00 

.       10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

.       25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

50  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

88 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $455  00 


Coolidge,  Mrs.  Algernon, 

10  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 

1  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph 

25  00 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F. 

5  00 

Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

2  00 

Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 

35  00 

Cox,  Mrs.  WiUiam  E.,   . 

10  00 

Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 

5  00 

Crane,  Mr.  Zenas,  . 

50  00 

Crehore,  Mrs.  G.  C,      . 

5  00 

Cumings,  Mrs.  J.  W.,     . 

2  00 

Cvirtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 

50  00 

Ciu-tis,  Mr.  George  W., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Miss  M.  G., 

2  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  William  O., 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W.,    . 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W., 

2  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

1  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  C, 

2  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  George  C, 

5  00 

Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 

2  00 

Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

1  00 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben,    . 

5  00 

Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 

2  00 

Daniels,  Mrs.  Edwin  A., 

1  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 

10  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

3  00 

Day,  Mrs.  Lewis,    . 

2  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 

5  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

5  00 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket, 

5  00 

Dickman,        Mrs.       George 

(for  1913),    . 

10  00 

Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.,    . 

10  00 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

1  00 

Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 

5  00 

Edmands,    Mrs.    M.    Grant 

(for  1913-14),      . 

20  00 

Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 

,       10  00 

EHot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 

10  00 

Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 

3  00 

Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 

2  00 

Elms,  Mrs.  James  C,     . 

2  00 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 

20  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 

5  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  WiUiam  C, 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    .  $841  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $841  00 


Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles, 

F., 

Fairbanks,   Mrs.  Charles  F 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M., 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B.,  . 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  . 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,       . 
Flood,  Mrs.  Hugh, 
Forbes,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Fottler,  Mrs.  Jacob, 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,     . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gardner,  Mrs.  J.  L., 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert,  . 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Joseph  T., 
GiU,  Mr.  Abbott  D.,      . 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,      . 
Goldthwait,  Mrs.  Joel,  . 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,      . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,     . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F., 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Guild,  Miss  Harriet  J., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Hall,  Miss  Laura  E., 
Harrington,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L. 
Hartwell,  Mrs.  A.  T.,     . 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.,    . 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.,    . 
Hemenway,  Mrs.  Charles  P. 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,   Mrs.   F.   L.    (for 

1913) 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,     . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,      . 
Hooper,  Miss  AdeUne  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Houghton,  Miss  EUzabeth  G 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,116  (X) 


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2 

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3 

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00 

2 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       15 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.       15 

00 

.,      10 

00 

89 


Amount  brought  forward,   $1,116  00 


Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,      . 

1  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,     . 

2  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 

10  00 

Howe,  Mr.  George  E.,    . 

2  00 

Howe,  Mrs.  J.  S.,    . 

15  00 

Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W.,  . 

1  00 

Hubbard,   Mrs.  Charles  W. 

25  00 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

25  00 

Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 

1  00 

Hyde,  Mrs.  Thomas  W., 

10  00 

Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 

5  00 

Jennings,  Miss  Julia  F., 

2  00 

Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 

2  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Arthiu-  S.  (foi 

1913-14),      . 

20  00 

Johnson,  Miss  Fannie  L., 

1  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 

10  00 

Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 

10  00 

Jordan,  Mrs.  Eben  D.,  . 

10  00 

Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Keene,     Mrs.     S.     W.     (foi 

1913-14),      . 

4  00 

Kimball,  The  Misses,     . 

25  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 

25  00 

KimbaU,  Mr.  Edward  P., 

10  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 

50  00 

King,  Mrs.  S.  G.,    . 

5  00 

Kingslej',  Mrs.  Robert  C, 

1  00 

Klous,  Mr.  Isaac,    . 

2  00 

Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 

1  00 

Lane,  Mrs.  Benjamin  P., 

2  00 

Larkin,  The  Misses, 

1  00 

Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 

5  00 

Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 

1  00 

Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph,   . 

100  00 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Loring,  Judge  W.  C,     . 

25  00 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

25  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K. 

50  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 

5  00 

Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.,  . 

5  00 

Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 

5  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G., 

10  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 

5  00 

Mack,  Mrs.  Thomas,     . 

10  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 

2  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M.,  . 

1  00 

Mansiu-,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 

3  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,661  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,661  00 


Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 

50  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

10  00 

McKee,  Mrs.  Wm.  L.,   . 

5  00 

Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 

5  00 

Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,       . 

2  00 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

10  00 

Morey,  Mrs.  Edwin, 

5  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 

5  00 

Morse,  Mrs.  Henry  Lee, 

5  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 

5  00 

Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,     . 

3  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob, 

2  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 

5  00 

Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,     . 

2  00 

Neibuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 

1  00 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 

5  00 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr., 

5  00 

Noyes,  Mrs.  G.  D., 

3  00 

Ohnsted,  Mrs.  J.  C,       . 

2  00 

Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 

2  00 

Paine,  Mrs.  Wm.  D.,      . 

2  00 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 

10  00 

Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J.,  . 

10  00 

Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 

2  00 

Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas,  . 

1  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  Claribel  N., 

5  00 

Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman,  . 

2  00 

Pickman,    Mrs.    D.    L.    (foi 

1913-14),      . 

50  00 

Pope,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

1  00 

Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr., 

25  00 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 

5  00 

Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M., 

10  00 

Proctor,  Mrs.  H.  H.,      . 

2  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  George,   . 

5  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

5  00 

Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A.,  . 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.,  . 

5  00 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Henrj-  E., 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

1  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  WilUam  Howell, 

25  00 

Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 

25  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  William  B.,  . 

2  00 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 

5  00 

Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 

10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 

2  00 

Richardson,  The  Misses  (fo 

r 

1913) 

1  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $2,016  00 


90 


Amount  brought  forward,    $2,016  00  Amount  brought  forward,    $2,276  00 


(for 


2  00 
10  00 

1  00 

2  00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

1  00 

2  00 
10  00 

2  00 


Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L., 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal, 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  F., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  L., 
Rotch,  Miss  Mary  R., 
Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 
Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 
Russell,  Mrs.  Elliott,      . 
Rust.  Mrs.  N.  J.,    . 
Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K., 
Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M., 
in  memory  of  his  mother, 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall, 
Sampson,  Miss  H.  H., 
Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Saunders,    Mrs.    D.    E. 

1913-14),      . 
Scammon,    The    Misses,    ii 

memory  of  their  mother, 
Schouler,  Mr.  James, 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem 
ory  of  her  mother,    Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer,    . 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sears,  Mrs.  Frederic  R., 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Severance,  Mrs.  Pierre  C., 
Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Rowland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Sherman,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sherman,  Mrs.  William  H., 
Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S.,  . 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.,    . 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D.,  . 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett, 
Steese,  Mrs.  Edward, 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,276  00 


.   10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2  00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

,   20 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 

Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 

Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,   . 

Stone,  Mrs.  Frederic,     . 

Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,     . 

Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 

Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 

Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 

Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 

Swann,  Mrs.  John, 

Symonds,  Miss  Lucy  Harris 
(for  1913-14),      . 

Talbot,  Miss  Leshe, 

Talbot,  Miss  Marjorie, 

Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer, 

Talbot,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.,    . 

Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 

Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G., 

Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  E.,  . 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C. 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,  . 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C.  (fo 

1913-14),      . 
Tyler,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Vorenberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Vose,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,      . 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee,  . 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H., 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard,   . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bentley  W., 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge,  . 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A., 
Wead,  Mrs.  Leslie  C,    . 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor,  . 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M., 
Wheeler,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
Whipple,  Mrs.  Sherman  L., 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 

Amount  carried  forward,    $2,583  00 


5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   15  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

1  00 

1  00 

er,   1  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

4  00 

3  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

.   10  00 

.   25  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   13  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

25  00 

91 


Amount  brought  forward,   $2,583  00 


White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman  H.  (foi 

1913-14),      . 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Williams,  The  Misses,    . 
WilUams,  Miss  AdeUa  C, 
WiUiams,    Mrs.   Arthur,   Jr 

(for  1913-14),      . 
WiUiams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 


5  00 
2  00 

2  00 
5  00 

1  00 
10  00 
25  00 

3  00 

2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,638  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   $2,638  DO 


WiUiams,  Mr.  Moses,     . 
WUUams,  Mrs.  Moses,   . 
WUlson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest, 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Wright,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Wright,  Mrs.  L.  A., 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 
Young,  Mrs.  Lucy  F.,    . 


2  00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

.   15 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

$2,685  00 


DONATIONS. 


A  friend,  .... 
Abbott,  Mrs.  P.  W.,       . 
Adams,  Mr.  George, 
Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Bartlett,  The  Misses,     . 
Bartol,  Miss  EUzabeth  H., 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Bass,  Mrs.  Emma  M.,   . 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.,    . 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot, 
Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis, 
Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Bowditch,  Mrs.  Alfred, 
Bradford,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon,    . 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A 
BuUard,  Mrs.  Wm.  S.,   . 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D.,  . 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Gary,  Miss  EUen  S., 
Caryl,  Miss  Harriet  E., 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B., 
Cheney,  Mrs.  Arthur,    . 
Cheney,  Mr.  Charles  W., 
Chesson,  Mr.  Harold,     . 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$1  50  1 

10 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

15 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

30 

00 

1 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

100 

00 

$359  50 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $359  50 


Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charies  K., 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C,    . 
Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E.,    . 
CoUamore,  Miss  Helen, 
Converse,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Coolidge,   Mrs.   Penelope  I 

(for  1913),    . 
Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E., 
Crane,  Mrs.  Z.  Marshal, 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R.,  . 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A, 
Cutter,  Mrs.  EUen  M., 
Dakin,  Miss  Margaret  F., 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker,    . 
Davis,  Mrs.  Roscoe  G., 
DevUn,  Mr.  John  E.,     . 
Dixon,  Mrs.  Lewis  S.,    . 
Ely,  Mrs.  Alfred  B., 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 

F 

Farnsworth,  Mrs.  C.  F., 
Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $639  50 


92 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $639  50 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,    . 
Fitzgerald,  Mrs.  Desmond, 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.,  . 
French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 
French,  Mr.  Wilfred  A., 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,    . 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  . 
Griggs,  Mrs.  Thomas  B., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  EUot,      . 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  . 
Hill,  Mrs.  Lew  C., 
Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C.,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,     . 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,    Mrs.    C.    F.    (for 

1913-14),      . 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis,  . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 

L.   Thayer,   through  Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown,  .  .  5  00 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  George 

H.  Eager,  .  .  .  .  10  00 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C.,  .  25  00 
Johnson,  Mrs.  F.  W.,  .  .  2  00 
JoUiffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H.,  .  5  00 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charies  H.,  .  .  10  00 
Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N.,  .  .  10  00 
Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph,  .  10  00 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John,  .  .  10  00 
Lins,  Mrs.  Ferdinand,  .  .  2  00 
Livermore,  Col.  Thomas  L.,  10  00 
Locke,  Mrs.  Charles  A.,  .  10  00 
Lockwood,  Mrs.  T.  S.,  .  .  10  00 
Lodge,        Mount        Neboh, 

through  Mr.  Isidor  Metz- 

ger, 25  00 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  .  .  5  00 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H.,  .  10  00 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L.,  .  .  10  00 
Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,  .  .  10  00 
Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,     .        .         5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,009  50 


10 

00 

5 

00 

10  00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

25 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

6 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

20 

00 

10  00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $1,009  50 


Means,  Mrs.  W.  A., 
Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 
Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.,  . 
Miner,  Mrs.  George  A.  (for 

1913-14),      . 
Mitton,  Mrs.  E.  J., 
Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Moore,  Mrs.  Henry  F., 
Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,     , 
Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 
Morrill,  Miss  Fanny  E., 
Newell,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Peabody,  Mrs.  Endicott, 
Peabody,  Mr.  Harold,    . 
Pearson,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,      . 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,     . 
Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 
Plumer,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Pratt,  Mr.  Robert  M.,  . 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,     . 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher,  . 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W..  . 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Richardson,  Mr.  Spencer  W 
Riley,  Mr.  Charies  E., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O., 
Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 
Rust,  Mrs.  Wm.  A., 
S.,  Mrs.,    . 

Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P., 
Saunders,    Mrs.    D.    E.    (for 

1913-14),      . 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Shapleigh,  Mrs.  John  W.  (for 

1913-14),      . 
Slattery,  Mrs.  WiUiam, 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,     . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Snelling,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Soren,  Mr.  John  H., 


10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

8  00 

10  00 

5  00 

1  00 
20  00 
25  00 
20  00 

2  00 
50  00 


5 
5 
5 
3 
5 
2 

100  00 
10  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


20  00 
5  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

50  00 
5  00 

2  00 

20  00 

5  00 

2  00 
2  00 
25  00 
1  00 
5  00 
5  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,528  50 


93 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,528  50  Amount  brought  forward,    SI, 731  50 


Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 

10  00 

Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 

10  00 

Sprague,  Miss  Mary  C, 

5  00 

Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D.,  . 

50  00 

Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 

2  00 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H.   (foi 

1913-14),      . 

20  00 

Swift,  Mrs.  E.  C,  . 

20  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Ripley, 

5  00 

Thayer,  Mrs.  William  G., 

10  00 

Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 

5  00 

Tolman,  Mr.  James  P., 

5  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 

1  00 

Tucker,   Mrs.   Wm.   A.    (foi 

1913) 

3  00 

Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A.,  . 

10  00 

Wads  worth,  Mrs.  W.  Austin 

,       20  00 

Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W., 

25  00 

Watson,  Miss  Abby  L., 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,731  50 


Watson,  Mrs.  R.  C, 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Weld,  Rev.  G.  F.,  . 
Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C. 
White,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitman,  Mr.  James  H., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Whitney,  Miss  Mary,     . 
Whitney,  Mr.  S.  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
WUhams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,     . 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  . 
Woodworth,  Mrs.  A.  S., 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 


5  00 

25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

20  00 

10  00 

4  00 

5  00 
5  00 

25  00 

5  00 

50  00 

10  00 

2  00 


$1,931  50 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Abbott,  Mrs.  Edward,   . 

Abbot,  Mrs.  Edwin  H., 

Ames,   Mrs.   James   B.    (do- 
nation), 

Batchelder,  Miss  Isabel, 

Beard,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 

Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  . 

Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

Carstein,  Mrs.  H.  L.,     . 

Cary,  Miss  Emma  F.,    . 

Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C.  (for 
1913) 

Dana,    Mrs.    R.    H.    (dona- 
tion)  

Deane,   Mrs.  Walter   (dona- 
tion)  

Devens,   Mrs.  A.   L.    (dona 
tion),     .... 

Durant,  Mrs.  W.  B.,      . 

Ela,  Mrs.  Walter,    . 

Emery,  Miss  Octa\'ia  B., 
(donation),  . 

Farlow,  Mrs.  Wm.  G.  (dona- 
tion)  


Amount  carried  forward, 


$3 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

$54  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $54  00 


Fish,  Mrs.  F.  P.,     . 
Folsom,  Mrs.  Norton,    . 
Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C, 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno, 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Goodwin,  Miss  Amelia  M., 
Green,  Miss  Mary  A.,    . 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Harris,   Miss  C.   M.    (dona 

tion),     .... 
Hayward,  Mrs.  J.  W.,    . 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,     . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Leavitt,  Miss  Margaret  A., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P., 
Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Nichols,  Mrs.  J.  T.  G., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $178  00 


.       10 

00 

2 

00 

.       50 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

94 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $178  00 


Richards,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Coolidge  S 
Sargent,  Dr.  D.  A., 
Saville,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M., 
Sedgwick,  Miss  M.  Theodora 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,    Mrs.,    Robert    N 
(donation),  . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $216  00 


2 

00 

.   10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

a,   2 

00 

.   10 

00 

10 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $216  00 


Wesselhoeft,  Mrs.  Walter, 
White,  Mrs.  Moses  P.,  . 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Williston,  Mrs.  L.  R.  (dona 

tion),     .... 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Woodman,   Miss  Mary   (foi 

1913-14),      . 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


1  00 
5  00 
5  00 

5  00 
5  00 

30  00 

2  00 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  S.  E.,       .        .       $1  00 

Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do- 
nation), 

Burditt,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

Callander,  Miss  Caroline  S 

Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,    . 
(donation),  . 

Copeland,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  . 

Cushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Christopher  R., 

Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewell  A., 

Hall,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 

Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 

Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C 

Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.,  . 

Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 

Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 

Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.,    . 

Nightingale,  Mrs.  C.  (dona- 
tion),    .... 

Pierce,  Miss  Henrietta  (do- 
nation), 

Amount  carried  forward, 


3 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

::.,     2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.  $31 

00 

Amount  brought  forward, 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do 

nation). 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Robinson,  Miss  Anna  B., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.,    . 
Soule,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  P., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  In  mem 

ory  of,  . 
Stearns,  Miss  Katherine, 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Frederic  P., 
Torrey,   Mrs.   Elbridge   (do 

nation). 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  . 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P., 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


$269 

00 

.  $31  00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

4 

00 

.   30  00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

LYNN  BRANCH. 


Averill,  Miss  M.  J., 

Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  K 

(donation),  . 
Caldwell,  Mrs.  Ellen  F 
Chase,  Mrs.  PhiHp  A., 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A., 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 
Harmon,  Mrs.  Rollin  E 
Haven,  Miss  Rebecca  E.  (do- 
nation) , 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$2  00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

$28  00 

$92  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $28  00 


Hollis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J., 
Page,  Miss  Elizabeth  D., 
Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B., 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.   (do- 
nation),        .        .        .        , 


10 

00 

1 

00 

10  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

$59  00 


95 


MILTON   BRANCH. 


Clark,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes,    . 
Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Jaques,  Mrs.  Francis,     . 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Morse,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.  (do- 
nation), 

Amount  carried  forward, 


U  00 

Amount  brought  forwai 

2  00 

10  00 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 

5  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Stephen  A 

10  00 

(donation),  . 

1  00 

Ware,  Mrs.  Arthur  L.,  . 

1  00 

$30  00 

S30  00 

2  00 
1  00 
1  00 
5  00 

$39  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  William  Endicott,  Treasurer, 
No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edwaed  E. 
Allen,  Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find 
in  it. 

WILLIAM   ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 
No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 


96 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 
follows : 

Mr.  WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 

No.   115  Devonshire  Street, 

Boston,  riass. 


A.  M-  onoi.wwii 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  vSchool 
For  the  Blind 


EIGHTY-FOURTH  ANNUAL  REPORT 
OF  THE   TRUSTEES 


1915 


BOSTON     je     jt     jt     Jt     ^1916 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


®Ijj  Cdommnttm^allJi  af  Mnssntl^usettB. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetis  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  20,  1915. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir  :  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 

use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-fourth  annual 

report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 

thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 

accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION 


1915-1916. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOAKD   OF 

Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 

FRANCIS   HENRY   APPLETON. 

WALTER  CABOT   BAYLIES. 

THOMAS   B.  FITZPATRICK. 

Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 

ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 


TBUSTEES. 

JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE   P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE. 


STANDING    COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


1916. 

1916. 

January, 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

July,   .      . 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 

February, 

Mra.  George  Angier. 

August,    . 

Annette  P.  Rogers. 

March,      . 

Robert  H.  Hallowell. 

September, 

George  H.  Richards. 

April,  . 

Paul  R.  Frothinqham. 

October,   . 

William  L.  Richardson. 

May,  .      . 

James  A.  Lowell. 

November, 

Richard  M.  Saltonstall 

June,  . 

Thomas  B.  Fitzpatbick. 

December, 

Albert  Thorndike. 

Committee  on  Education. 

George  H.  Richards. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mra.  George  Angier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Albert  Thorndike. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 

Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Albert  Thorndike. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS   AND   OFFICERS   AT   THE   UPPER   SCHOOL. 
LITEBABT  DEPABTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

HAROLD   MOLTER. 

Miss  CAROLINE   E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA   A.  BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA   L.  LANGWORTHY. 

ARTHUR  E.  HOLMES. 

Miss  FEODORE   M.  NICHOLLS. 

Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  GRACE   B.  BICKNELL. 
Mrs.  vera   N.  LOCKE. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 
Miss  ABBIE  G.  POTTLE. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Housework. 
Miss  GRACE  E.  PORTER. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL   TBAININQ. 

LEWIS  M.  DILLINGHAM.  |   Miss  INEZ   J.  SWENSON. 

Miss  LENNA   D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPABTMENT   OP   MUSIC. 

EDWIN   L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY   E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 

Miss  JANE   M.  BACON. 

Miss  ALVERA   GUSTAFSON. 

Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  MANUAL  TBAININQ. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN   H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY   B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES   M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN   E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  LAURA   A.  BROWN. 


DEPABTBIENT   Or  TUNIMa  PIANOFOBTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Inalrttctor. 


LIBSABIANS,  CLEBKS  AND  BOOKKEEPEBS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAWYER,  Librarian. 
Miss  LOUISE   P.  HUNT,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA   GARDNER   FISH.  Clerk. 


Miss  JENNIE  L.  TWITCHELL,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI   L.  LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


Mbs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,  Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPABTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR   S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR  WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D.,  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC   DEPABTMENT. 

FREDERICK   A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Housekeepers  In  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 

Misa  CLARISSA   A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  FRANCES  E.  CARLTON. 
Miss  FLORA   C.  FOUNTAIN. 
Miss  N.  GRACE   BENTLEY. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Mrs.  M.  a.  KNOWLTON. 
Mrs.  CORA   L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  S.  ELIZABETH  SCHOULER. 
Miss  FLORENCE   E.  STOWE. 


PBINTINQ  DEPABTMENT. 

DENNIS   A.  REARDON,  Manager.  I    Mrs.  MARTHA   A.  TITUS,  PrinUr. 

Mrs.  ELIZABETH   S.  REARDON.  I    Miss  MARY   L.  TULLY,  Printer. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Operator  of  Stereotypemaker. 


WOBKSHOP   FOB  ADULTS. 

EUGENE  C.  HOWARD,  Manager  Emeritus. 
FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA   C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS   AND    OFFICERS   AT   THE   LOWER   SCHOOL. 


KINDERGARTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 

Miss  Lauba  S.  Sterling,  Assistant. 

Miss  Gladys  E.  Doe,  Kindergartner. 

Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Miss  Beulah  O.  Berrt,  Assistant. 

Miss  Annie  L.  F.  Edwards, 
Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton, 


Girls'  Section. 


Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 

Miss  Cornelia  M.  Loring,  Assista7it. 

Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 

Miss  Alice  M.  Lane,  Teacher. 
I    Miss  Henrietta  Damon,  Music  Teacher. 
Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 
Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 


PRIMARY  DEPARTMENT. 
Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Margaret  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Mart  M.  Hallett,  Teacher. 


Miss  Effib  C.  Saunders,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  SiGRiD  Sjolander,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Oirls'  Section. 


Miss  Lizzie  R.  Kinsman,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Gring,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'   VISITING   COMMITTEE   TO   THE   KINDERGARTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President. 
Mrs.  Wm.  R.  LrvERMORE,  Secretary. 


Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Mrs. 
Miss 
Mrs. 
Miss 


John  Lawrence, 
Louis  Bacon, 
Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Joseph  Warren, 
William  James,  Jr., 
Annie  C.  Warren,  . 
John  B.  Thomas,     . 
Ellen  Bullard, 


■  January. 


Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker, 
Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman,  . 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,        .      . 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent,  . 


>  February. 

March. 

April. 

May. 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 
Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Honorary  Member. 
Mrs.  KiNQSMiLL  Marrs,  Honorary  Member. 
Mrs.  Thomas  Mack,  Honorary  Member. 


June 

September. 

October. 

November. 
December. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Boston. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Appleton,   Hon.   Francis  Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Mrs.   Francis   Hemy, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston. 
Appleton,   Mrs.    Francis   Henrj', 

Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Bacon,  Edwin  M.,  Boston. 
Bacon,  Gaspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 
Baldwin,    S.    E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Barbour,  Edmund  D.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F,,  Boston. 
Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 

York. 
Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 
Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 
Bourn,  Hon.  A.  0.,  Providence. 
Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 


Bowditch,  Ingersoll,  Boston, 
Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 
Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 
Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 
Brooks,  Rev.  G.  W.,  Dorchester. 
Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 
Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 
Browne,  A.  Parker,  Boston. 
Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 
Bullard,  Mrs.  WiUiam  S.,  Boston. 
Bullock,  George  A.,  Worcester. 
Burnham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 
Burnham,  William  A.,  Boston. 
Burr,  I.  T.,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Boston. 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.,  Newton. 
Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 
Callender,  Walter,  Providence. 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 
Gary,  Miss  E.  F.,  Cambridge. 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 
Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 
Chace,  Hon.  J.,  Valley  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chace,  J.  H.,  Valley  FaUs,  R.  L 
Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 
Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston. 
Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 
Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 
Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 
Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 
CooUdge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 
Coohdge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 
Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 


Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 

Crosby,  Sumner,  Brookline. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Grove  Hall. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs,  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Gushing,  Livingston,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eliot,  Eev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

EUiott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  WiUiam,  Boston. 

Endicott,  WiUiam  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Hem-y  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  S.  M.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover. 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston. 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N.,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Duncan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
line. 

Foster,  Mrs.  E.  W.,  Hartford, 
Conn. 

Foster,  Francis  C,  Cambridge. 


Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E.,  Boston. 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P.  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon.  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 

Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

GUdden,  W.  T.,  Brookhne. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Hanscom,  Dr.  Sanford,  Somer- 
ville. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hersey,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 


Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 
Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  Somerville. 
Hogg,  John,  Boston. 
HoUis,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  Lynn. 
Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 
Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 
Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 
Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston, 
lasigi.  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 
Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 
Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 
Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 
Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 
James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 
Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 
Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 
Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 
Jones,  Mrs.  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 
Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 
Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 
Kent,  Mrs.  Helena  M.,  Boston. 
Kidder,  Mrs.  Henry  P.,  Boston. 
Kilmer,    Frederick    M.,    Somer- 
ville. 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 
Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 
King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 
Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 
Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 
Ej-amer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 
Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 
Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 
Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 
Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 


Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 
Lincoln,  L.  J.  B.,  Hingham. 
Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 
Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 
Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge. 
Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence. 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 
Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 
Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 
Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston, 
Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 
Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 
Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 
Lyman,  Arthur  T.,  Boston. 
Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 

Me. 
Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 
Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 
Mason,  L  B.,  Providence,  R.  I. 
Matthews,  Mrs.  A.  B.,  Boston. 
Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 
Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 
Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 
Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 
Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 
Minot,  William,  Boston. 
Mixter,  Miss  M.  C,  Boston. 
Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 
Morgan,   Mrs.   Eustis  P.,   Saco, 

Me. 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 
Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F.,  Jamaica 

Plain. 
Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 
Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 


Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Gren villa  H.,  Boston. 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr.,  Boston. 
Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 
Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 
Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 
Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 
Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 
Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 
Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 
PhilUps,  Mrs.  John  C.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 
Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 
Pope,  Mrs,  A.  A.,  Boston. 
Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 
Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 
Quimby,  Mrs.  A.  K.,  Boston. 
Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 
Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 
Reardon,  Dermis  A.,  Watertown. 
Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 
Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 
Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 
Rice,  M.  Eugene,  South  Sudbury. 
Richards,  Miss  Ehse,  Boston. 
Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 
Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 
Richardson,  John,  Boston. 
Richardson,   Miss   M.    G.,    New 

York. 
Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 
Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 
Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Newton. 
Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 
Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 
Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 
Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 


Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Rowan,  Alfred  J.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Mattapan. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,  Brookline. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Chestnut 
Hill. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston, 

Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  Concord. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Heiu'j''  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 

Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Spencer,  Henry  F.,  Boston. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  Clipston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Ezra  R.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincirmati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  AUce  Foster,  Milton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston. 


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Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W.,  Boston. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Weymouth. 

Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Weymouth. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 

Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Wheelwright,  Mrs.  Andrew  C, 
Boston. 


Wheelwright,  John  W.,  Boston. 

White,  C.  J.,  Cambridge. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  South 
Framingham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  I'EOCEEDINGS 


ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  13,  1915. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are 
hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  William  Endicott. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 


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Trmtees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  Robert  H.  Hallowell,  James  A. 
Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  Richard  M.  Saltonstall  and 
Albert  Thorndike. 

Mr.  M.  Eugene  Rice  and  Mr.  William  T.  Glidden  were 
unanimously  elected  members  of  the  corporation. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

&earelary. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  13,  1915. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  That  a  large  institu- 
tion for  the  young  may  be  incomparably  more  effi- 
cient when  housed  in  small  groups  is  generally  con- 
ceded, but  that  it  can  be  conducted  nearly  or  quite 
as  economically  is  not.  Obviously  the  family  plan 
requires  a  larger  staff  of  housemothers,  but  it  admits 
of  an  even  greater  proportional  reduction  of  servants, 
even  to  none  at  all  in  the  case  of  seeing  children. 

In  the  great  house  where  our  boys  lived  at  South 
Boston  eighteen  servants  were  required,  whereas  in 
their  four  houses  here  but  seven  are  needed.  Even 
blind  pupils  can  do  much  of  the  work  of  small  houses, 
and  housemothers  can  oversee  breakage  and  table 
waste.  Left-overs  too  may  be  used  for  a  small  family 
that  would  be  useless  in  a  large  one.  We  cannot 
report  that  our  new  plant  costs  no  more  to  conduct 
than  our  old  ones,  but  we  can  and  do  state  that  the 
increase  is  less  than  we  expected  —  for  the  second 
school  year  at  Watertown  the  cost  for  maintenance 
was  only  5.7  per  cent,  more  than  for  the  average  of 
our  last  five  years  before  the  transfer.  This  fact  is 
most  gratifying. 

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We  wish  to  call  the  attention  of  our  friends  and 
patrons  to  the  above  statement,  just  as  we  have  for 
the  past  three  years  told  them  of  the  more  beautiful 
and  fuller  life  they  have  helped  make  possible  to  our 
children.  In  our  removal  to  Watertown  we  wish  all 
to  know  that  we  have  made  a  wise  and  equitable 
transfer  of  the  venerable  institution  and  for  that 
reason  ask  the  more  urgently  and  confidently  for 
their  continued  favor  and  support  and  remembrance 
in  their  wills.  Fine  new  buildings  paid  for  out  of 
our  principal  have  reduced  it  sadly;  and  while  the 
institution  has  reserved  sufficient  income  for  running 
expenses,  it  cannot  yet  afford  to  add  the  immediately 
needed  structures  mentioned  in  previous  reports  — 
a  stable,  a  proper  fence  enclosing  the  estate,  and  a 
pipe  organ  for  our  morning  assembly  hall. 

The  wave  of  giving  which  has  spread  over  the  land 
in  behalf  of  suffering  from  the  great  war  has  affected 
even  the  pupils  of  such  a  school  as  ours,  the  girls 
having  knitted  and  made  quite  a  stock  of  the  usual 
garments  for  the  Belgian  Relief  Committee  and  for 
the  Red  Cross.  The  institution,  too,  has  been  able 
to  aid  in  filling  wholesale  orders,  at  less  than  cost, 
of  its  special  appliances  —  checkerboards  and  inter- 
locking dominoes  —  for  soldiers  blinded  in  battle. 

Of  the  school  departments  there  is  none  more 
serviceable  than  that  of  manual  training.  The  chil- 
dren enter  it  while  in  the  primary  school  —  all  of 
them  —  and  most  continue  in  it  to  the  end  of  their 
high  school  course.    It  is  serviceable  to  them  educa- 

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tionally,  vocationally  and  morally,  and  fortunately 
is  popular  with  the  majority. 

As  to  piano  tuning,  many  try  but  few  are  chosen; 
which  is  to  say  that  our  plan  is  to  encourage  only 
truly  promising  candidates  to  finish  this  best  of 
vocational  courses  open  to  blind  men.  The  prepara- 
tory and  apprentice  period  is  necessarily  long  and 
stiff,  for  we  decline  to  give  certificates  to  any  one  who 
cannot  compass  the  ordinary  repair  work  expected  of 
a  piano  tuner.  Within  the  last  three  years  we  have 
given  certificates  to  only  seven;  but  all  of  these 
young  men  are  fully  competent  and  may  be  em- 
ployed with  confidence.  Ex-pupils  of  the  institu- 
tion may  be  found  making  a  good  living  by  piano 
tuning  in  many  parts  of  the  country.  Two  of  these, 
employed  on  salary  by  the  institution,  care  both  for 
some  300  pianos  in  private  houses  and  for  550  in  the 
public  schools  of  Boston,  Medford,  Worcester  and 
Waltham. 

The  music  department  outdid  itself  last  year  in 
effective  routine  work,  in  exhibitions,  and  in  special 
concerts.  Even  our  large  assembly  hall  cannot  hold 
those  desiring  to  attend  these  functions,  so  that  we 
now  repeat  them  always  once  and  sometimes  twice. 
While  the  annual  concert  is  much  the  most  ambitious 
musical  event  of  our  year,  yet  the  recently  intro- 
duced Christmas  Carols  have  not  been  less  attractive 
and  pleasing.  It  has  now  come  about  that  we  must 
send  the  invitations  to  somewhat  different  lists  each 
year. 

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This  is  our  way  of  returning  to  the  public  some  of 
the  aid  and  attention  received  from  it.  For  instance, 
we  have  again  received  the  usual  generous  supply  of 
tickets  to  concerts  and  other  functions  in  Boston  and 
Cambridge.  And  to  these  we  have  been  able  to  add 
other  splendid  opportunities  by  means  of  the  Maria 
Kemble  Oliver  Music  Fund,  which  is  now  in  its  sixth 
year  of  service,  this  past  year  sending  groups  of 
advanced  pupils  to  concerts  by  the  Boston  Sym- 
phony Orchestra,  the  New  York  Philharmonic  Or- 
chestra, the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society;  the  Sunday 
afternoon  concerts  in  Sj^mphony  Hall;  recitals  by 
Fremstadt  and  Amato,  by  Bauer,  Tate  and  Kreis- 
ler,  by  Bauer  and  Gabrilowitsch,  by  Kreisler  and 
by  Schumann-Heink;  the  oratorios  Messiah  and 
Elijah;  and  the  opera  Siegfried  in  the  Harvard 
Stadium.  Through  it,  too,  we  had  this  spring  a 
lecture  by  Mr.  Louis  C.  Elson  on  ''The  wood-wind 
of  the  orchestra,"  illustrated  by  members  of  the 
Longy  Club,  singly  and  concerted  —  a  rare  musical 
event  in  our  year. 

In  the  spring  the  boys'  department  gave  a  re- 
markably good  presentation  of  As  You  Like  It,  re- 
peating it  to  a  second  enthusiastic  audience.  Know- 
ing our  interest  in  high-grade  dramatics,  a  friend 
sent  one  hundred  tickets  to  a  performance  of 
A  Midsummer  NighVs  Dream  at  the  Boston 
Opera  House,  which  our  pupils  and  their  leaders 
attended. 

While    such    events  —  concerts,    exhibitions,    re- 

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ceptions,  dances  —  and  the  pupils  of  Perkins  have 
their  share  —  while  such  things  loom  prominently 
for  report  in  the  year's  events  and  activities,  we 
would  state  that,  where  the  pupils  give  them  and 
give  them  well,  they  are  to  a  great  extent  manifesta- 
tions of  not  only  what  the  blind  can  do  but  what  the 
institution  has  made  it  possible  for  them  to  do.  The 
daily  school  routine,  therefore,  must  have  been 
effective.  This,  the  Director  reports,  has  been  the 
case  in  all  departments.  The  manner  of  living  in 
families  he  feels  enthusiastic  about,  the  hour  in 
housework  which  every  one  contributes  daily  help- 
ing wonderfully  in  character  building  and  in  effi- 
ciency. It  also  improves  the  results  of  school  study 
and  recitation;  in  other  words,  it  makes  everywhere 
for  a  better  life,  now  and  after  leaving  school;  for  it 
is  an  approach  to  the  normal  life  of  the  world.  The 
Director  likes  to  describe  the  new  Perkins  as  a  com- 
munity for  socializing  its  pupils. 

There  is  danger  that  institution  life  may  unfit 
for  life  in  the  world.  The  staff  of  our  institution 
have  been  trained  to  neutralize  this  tendency.  They 
demand  the  same  excellency  in  work  as  in  study, 
and  they  encourage  individual  pupils  to  be  pre- 
pared for  any  proper  employment  —  to  seize  chances 
when  they  offer  and  even  to  make  them  when  they 
do  not.  They  tell  these  blind  boys  and  girls  that 
such  employment,  whether  it  be  selling  newspapers 
or  washing  dishes  or  ''going  out  to  service,"  is  more 
honorable  than  receiving  what   they  do  not   earn. 

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Every  one  cannot  be  a  successful  teacher  or  a  tuner 
or  even  a  mattress  maker.  Many  more  can  earn  in 
the  commoner  pursuits.  Last  July,  through  the 
help  of  an  agent  of  the  Massachusetts  Commission 
for  the  Blind,  one  of  our  older  boys  and  five  of  our 
girls  took  summer  places  —  the  boy  as  dishwasher 
in  a  hotel,  and  the  girls  as  mothers'  helpers  in  fam- 
ilies; and  what  is  more  to  the  point,  they  made 
good.  There  is  no  single  event  of  the  year  which  we 
are  prouder  to  report  than  this. 

The  Director  seizes  the  opportunity  immediately 
after  morning  prayers  of  bringing  many  matters  to 
the  attention  of  the  assembled  upper  school.  The 
occasion  is  never  abused  by  making  it  a  time  for 
discipline  but  is  kept  sacred  to  information  and 
uplift.  And  so,  after  the  service  of  song,  when 
hearts  and  minds  are  receptive,  he  speaks  for  ten  or 
twelve  minutes  of  some  encouraging  experience,  the 
life  of  a  successful  blind  person,  the  experience  of 
some  pupil  who  has  made  good,  and  why  it  was  suc- 
cessful, or  he  describes  a  visit  to  another  school  or 
to  any  place  or  function  whatsoever  —  anything, 
in  short,  tending  to  hearten  his  hearers  or  to  enlarge 
their  horizon  of  intelligence.  This  past  year  he  has 
dwelt  largely  on  current  events,  seizing  the  occasion 
of  the  great  war  to  vitalize  matters  of  geography, 
history  and  science  in  connection  with  it;  what  is 
neutrality,  international  law,  the  function  of  an 
ambassador;  what  is  a  mine,  an  aeroplane,  a  sub- 
marine, and  how  they  operate;    what  is  life  in  the 

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trenches,  how  soldiers  are  able  to  keep  well  there, 
etc.,  etc. 

This  morning  talk  is  not  a  new  idea  or  practice. 
Distinctly  new  practices  are  these:  Exchanging 
individual  pupils  with  the  Pennsylvania  school, 
sending  a  graduate  pupil  to  the  Boston  School  for 
Social  Workers,  receiving  for  the  year  a  graduate 
pupil  of  another  school  on  a  music  scholarship,  and 
affording  a  year's  opportunity  for  study  of  our 
methods  to  a  partly  blind  teacher  from  a  foreign 
school.  It  is  a  privilege  to  be  able  to  extend  to 
others  opportunities  within  the  gift  of  the  institu- 
tion, just  as  we  are  gratified  to  be  able  to  command 
for  our  own  pupils  the  chance  to  make  good  at  a 
great  sister  institution. 

Still  another  new  event  —  this  one  in  our  Kinder- 
garten calendar  —  was  the  inauguration  last  Novem- 
ber of  Founder's  Day.  The  idea  of  doing  this  arose 
among  the  teachers  of  the  Kindergarten,  who  re- 
membered Mr.  Anagnos  well  and  knew  how  abso- 
lutely that  school  for  blind  children  was  his  creation. 
The  exercises  were  simple  but  earnest,  the  children 
doing  their  part.  By  observing  Founder's  Day  each 
year  it  is  believed  that  the  children  may  realize 
better  what  their  opportunities  are  and  how  they 
came  to  have  them. 

Last  May  the  teachers  and  matrons  of  the  Kinder- 
garten or  lower  school  prepared  and  successfully 
conducted  before  visitors  in  Anagnos  Court  a  pageant 
which  they  called  a  Spring  Festival.     Each  one  of 

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the  124  children  took  part,  123  of  them  in  simple 
costumes  made  by  the  same  devoted  teachers  and 
matrons;  one  costume,  the  elaborate  one  required 
by  the  Herald,  was  hired. 

Two  former  pupils  of  the  school  are  in  coUege  and 
are  doing  well.  Another,  Miss  Mary  G.  Knap, 
graduated  last  June  from  Wellesley  College  among 
the  highest  in  her  class,  having  attained  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  When  a  totally  blind  girl  does  this  sort  of 
thing,  it  is  supererogatory  to  say  that  blindness  nec- 
essarily precludes  success  in  any  reasonable  attain- 
ment. And  who  shall  say  that  Miss  Knap's  four 
years'  residence  in  college  has  not  lent  greater  in- 
centive to  others  than  it  has  brought  to  herself? 
Both  the  college  and  all  who  came  in  contact  with  her 
there  are  the  better  for  knowing  her  and  for  realiz- 
ing what  is  possible  under  the  circumstances  or  what 
more  should  be  possible  without  what  seems  so  in- 
superable a  handicap. 

Blind  people  should  not  demand  equality  of  op- 
portunity with  others  but  should  earn  and  deserve 
it.  Because  one  of  our  former  pupils  and  her  friends 
chose  this  past  year  to  make  public  demand  for 
opportunities  in  connection  with  normal  schools, 
which  the  State  authorities  declined  to  grant,  it  seems 
probable  that  these  schools  in  Massachusetts  will  be 
closed  to  blind  students,  no  matter  how  worthy. 
In  the  past,  some  eight  of  our  former  pupils  have  con- 
tinued their  studies  at  a  normal  school  of  the  State 
with  satisfaction  to  themselves  and  their  teachers. 

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In  June  last  eleven  pupils  were  graduated  from 
our  high  school  course,  two  from  the  piano  normal 
department  and  two  from  the  piano  tuning  depart- 
ment. Two  teachers  who  had  served  us  at  the 
Kindergarten  with  marked  efficiency  and  devotion  for 
twelve  and  ten  years  respectively,  Miss  Helen  M. 
Hinolf  and  Miss  Angle  L.  Tarbell,  resigned  in  June, 
while  Mrs.  Sophia  C.  Hopkins,  the  matron  of  Oliver 
Cottage  for  twenty-nine  years,  had  to  give  up  in 
November,  owing  to  precarious  condition  of  health. 
Our  cottage  matrons  are  in  a  position  to  exert  pro- 
found influence  upon  their  households,  and  we 
know  that  the  name  of  Mrs.  Hopkins  is  revered 
by  many  and  many  a  blind  woman  and  many  a 
teacher. 

Having  been  invited  by  the  authorities  of  the 
Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition  to  unite 
in  a  joint  exhibit  of  the  State's  resources  for  the 
blind,  and  having  been  urged  to  make  this  exhibit 
telling,  our  institution  bought  a  moving  picture 
camera  and  by  this  means  produced  about  1,200  feet 
of  fihn  portraying  interesting  activities  of  the  Bos- 
ton Nursery  for  Blind  Babies,  of  the  Association 
and  of  the  Commission  for  the  Blind,  and  of  our  own 
Kindergarten  and  Upper  School.  Other  exhibits  of 
Commission  and  school  were  lantern  slides  operated 
by  a  stereomotograph,  glass  cases  showing  products 
and  methods  of  their  production,  pictures  and 
descriptive  panels  on  a  multiplex  display  frame, 
and  framed  wall  pictures.     The  whole   affair  was 

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carefully  gotten  up  by  Miss  Lucy  Wright,  General 
Superintendent  of  the  Massachusetts  Commission 
for  the  Blmd,  and  Mr.  Allen,  and  arranged  under 
the  artistic  direction  of  Messrs.  Pennell,  Gibbs  and 
Quiring,  Decorators,  which  firm  most  kindly  gave 
their  services,  and  it  was  exhibited  in  the  Massa- 
chusetts House-Booth  within  the  Palace  of  Educa- 
tion. The  display  was  really  a  beautiful  one  and 
attracted  much  notice;  it  took  a  medal  of  honor. 

The  twenty-second  convention  of  the  American 
Association  of  Instructors  of  the  Blind   was  held 
June  28-30  last  at  the  California  Institution  for  the 
Deaf  and  the  Blind,  Berkeley,  our  Director  being  its 
president.     The  American  Association  of  Workers 
for  the  Blind  held  its  biennial  convention  there  also, 
the  chief  piece  of  business  for  both  bodies  being, 
first,  the  final  report  of  the  Uniform  Type  Com- 
mittee to  the  Workers,  which  was  accepted  and  the 
committee  discharged;  and  second,  the  appointment 
by  the  Instructors  of  two  committees,  one  to  test 
out  in  the  schools  the  system  of  type  proposed,  and 
another  to  labor  for  the  promotion  of  uniformity 
with  the  British  type  committee,  both  to  report  to 
the  next  convention.     The  members  of  these  com- 
mittees now  comprise  a  commission  on  uniform  t3npe, 
composed   of    both   Workers   and   Instructors,   one 
member  of  which  will  devote  his  whole  year's  time 
to  the  matter;    so  that  it  is  confidently  expected 
that  a  settlement  of  this  important  and  much  vexed 
question  will  be  reached  by  next  summer. 

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Partly  because  of  the  unsettled  condition  of  the 
type  question  but  mainly  because  there  has  been  an 
accumulation  of  plates  beyond  the  capacity  of  the 
Howe  Memorial  Press  to  publish  in  book  form, 
together  with  the  other  demands  made  upon  that 
press  —  the  new  books  issued  during  the  year  have 
been  fewer  than  usual.  However,  there  have  been 
issued  an  unusually  large  number  of  new  editions 
of  old  books  which  had  become  exhausted,  and 
much  new  music.  By  all  odds  the  most  important 
publication  of  the  year  is  a  complete  manual  of  the 
staff  notation  in  form  palpable  to  the  touch.  Inas- 
much as  most  pupils  of  blind  music  teachers  will  be 
seeing  pupils  using  the  common  notation,  it  is  pre- 
requisite that  these  teachers  shall  be  familiar  with 
it.  No  satisfactory  manual  of  the  kind  has  appeared 
before  because  of  the  extraordinary  difficulty  of 
making  plates  with  ledger  lines  and  notes  at  different 
elevation,  so  as  to  be  readily  recognizable  by  the 
finger.  Our  profession  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to 
Mr.  Gardiner  and  his  helpers  in  our  music  depart- 
ment for  the  labor  they  have  put  forth  in  accom- 
plishing the  desired  result. 

The  institution  library  now  contains  1,878  differ- 
ent titles  in  raised  print,  the  actual  number  of 
books,  however,  being  13,999.  The  pupils  of  the 
school  drew  out  for  voluntary  reading  within  the 
year  3,091  books,  and  the  adult  blind  Hving  out- 
side the  institution,  5,318.  In  June  1,506  books 
were    sent    out    for    summer    reading,    the    largest 

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number  ever  loaned  for  this  purpose  from  our 
library. 

The  very  important  work  among  the  adult  blind 
living  at  home,  which  has  been  conducted  by  the 
Perkins  Institution  for  the  State  since  1900,  has 
gone  on  much  as  usual  this  past  year,  except  that 
the  customary  vacation  period  had  to  be  extended 
somewhat,  owing  to  the  failure  of  the  appropriation 
to  meet  the  expenses  of  travel.  These  have  now  so 
risen  with  the  times  that  we  have  again  petitioned 
for  an  increase  from  $5,000  to  $6,000,  asked  for  two 
years  ago.  The  year's  lessons  given  have  been  1,868, 
the  number  of  pupils  76,  and  the  number  of  miles 
traveled  by  the  several  teachers  and  their  guides 
collectively  have  been  30,068. 

It  has  been  our  boast  for  some  years  that  the 
Perkins  Institution  Workshop  for  Adults  at  South 
Boston  has  been  run  without  expense  to  the  institu- 
tion. This  past  year,  however,  there  has  been  a  slight 
deficit  in  earnings  over  expenses.  This  is  a  natural 
result  of  the  times,  and  were  the  business  less  estab- 
lished and  trustworthy,  the  deficit  would  surely  have 
been  greater.  However,  it  is  the  institution  and  not 
the  workers  who  have  suffered.  The  institution  has 
added  to  the  shop  a  new  fire  escape  and  considerable 
repairs,  both  inside  and  out. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1915,  the  number  of  blind  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  308,  which  is  two  less  than 
on   the   corresponding   date   of   the   previous  year. 

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This  number  included  75  boys  and  77  girls  in  the 
upper  school,  59  boys  and  61  girls  in  the  lower  school, 
14  teachers  and  officers,  and  22  adults  in  the  work- 
shop at  South  Boston.  There  have  been  53  admitted 
and  55  discharged  during  the  year. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1914-1915.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
7;  Interstitial  keratitis,  1;  Phlyctenular  keratitis, 
1;  Injuries,  3;  Atrophy  of  the  optic  nerve,  9;  Con- 
genital, 6;  Congenital  amblyopia,  2;  Congenital 
syphilis,  1;  Congenital  microphthalmos,  2;  Con- 
genital cataracts,  5;  Cataracts,  1;  Aniridia  and  con- 
genital cataract,  1;  Specific  uveitis,  1;  Syphilitic 
iritis,  1 ;  Buphthalmos,  1 ;  High  myopia,  1 ;  Progres- 
sive myopia,  1;  Corneal  scars,  3;  Ulcers,  1;  Measles, 
1;  Hysteria,  (?),  1. 

Save  for  a  few  broken  bones  and  several  cases  of 
mumps  and  whooping  cough,  the  health  of  the  pupils 
has  been  good.  One  of  our  pupils,  Robert  J.  Robert- 
son of  Whitinsville,  Mass.,  was  drowned  at  his 
home,  June  28,  1915,  after  leaving  school  for  the 
summer  vacation. 

On  June  3,  1915,  the  birthday  of  King  George  V. 
of  England,  a  former  Perkins  pupil  from  Canada 
Dr.  Charles  Frederick  Fraser,  was  knighted.  This 
is  the  second  time  the  honor  has  been  conferred  upon 
a  totally  blind  man  once  connected  with  our  insti- 
tution. Sir  Frederick  Fraser,  K.B.,  lost  his  sight 
in  youth,  and,  upon  leaving  school,  returned  to 
Halifax  to  become  the  superintendent  of  the  newly 

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formed  school  for  the  bhnd  there.  He  is^still  its 
superintendent.  Two  years  ago  he  was  called  to 
the  bar  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislature  and  presented 
with  a  resolution  of  thanks  for  his  splendid  services 
to  the  blind.  The  Provincial  Legislature  could  do 
no  more.  Now  his  King  has  crowned  this  act  by 
conferring  upon  him  knighthood. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Miss  Fannie  Bartlett  ;  J.  Arthur  Beebe  ; 
Mrs.  Sarah  Lawrence,  wife  of  Peter  C.  Brooks; 
William  Endicott;  Miss  Mary  E.  Ferris;  Mrs. 
Annie,  widow  of  James  T.  Fields;  Miss  Laura  E. 
Hall;  Mrs.  Ellen  L.,  widow  of  Charles  P.  Hem- 
enway;  Mrs.  Mary  Ellen,  widow  of  George  Gard- 
ner Lowell;  John  Pickering  Lyman;  Miss  Abby 
Wales  Turner;  Mrs.  Sarah  Brackett,  widow  of 
Charles  T.  White;  Miss  Anne  Whitney. 

More  than  passing  mention  should  be  made  of 
the  loss  through  death  of  Mr.  William  Endicott,  a 
devoted  member  of  the  corporation  for  more  than 
fifty  years.  He  was  treasurer  from  1868  to  1873. 
From  1888  to  1911  he  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, acting  as  its  chairman  for  two  years,  and  he 
served  on  the  Committee  on  Finance  during  that  full 
period  of  twenty-three  years.  He  was  active  in  the 
choice  of  the  site  for  the  new  buildings  at  Water- 
town  and  conducted  the  negotiations  for  the  pur- 
chase of  the  land.  He  could  always  be  counted  upon 
to  aid  by  wise  counsel  and  advice  in  the  many 

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matters  of  importance  which  constantly  came  before 
the  trustees.  He  was  not  the  only  member  of  his 
family  to  serve  the  institution.  His  brother,  Mr. 
Henry  Endicott,  was  treasurer  from  1873  to  1880 
and  auditor  of  the  treasurer's  accounts  for  ten 
years,  from  1897  to  1907,  while  Mr.  William  Endi- 
cott, the  son,  has  been  our  valued  treasurer  since 
1904.  Other  members  of  the  Endicott  family  have 
been  named  in  the  list  of  members  of  the  corpora- 
tion. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE   GILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD   LOWELL, 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE   P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL, 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Trustees. 


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SOME  PRESENT-DAY  AIMS  AND  METHODS 
IN  THE  EDUCATION  OF  THE  BLIND. ' 


As  you  know,  my  work  has  been  largely  that  of 
builder  and  reconstructor.  Those  of  you  who  read 
reports  know  too  the  principles  I  have  labored  to 
embody  in  material  environment  for  blind  youth 
while  at  certain  residential  schools.  But  you  can- 
not know  that  with  the  reahzation  of  my  hopes  and 
ideals  in  this  matter  of  equipment  I  have  come  to 
realize  more  and  more  the  difficulty  of  truly  educat- 
ing blind  youth. 

I  need  scarcely  rehearse  here  the  difficulties.  They 
are  evident  enough  at  the  outset  —  pupil  material 
more  often  than  not  having  a  poor  start  in  life  and 
early  handicapped  by  the  absence  of  that  sense 
through  which  nine-tenths  of  childhood's  impres- 
sions come  —  cut  off  from  much  active  play  and 
that  wholesome  competition  with  others  which  re- 
sults in  self-help  —  the  wonder  of  it  is  that  so  many 
of  our  pupils  come  to  us  as  capable  as  they  are. 

The  first  task  of  the  wise  motherly  women  in  whose 
charge  we  place  these  newcomers  is  to  straighten 
out  the  little  human  tangles;    and,  should  an  intel- 

1  This  paper  was  prepared  in  June  last  and  read  as  the  President's  address  to  the  conven- 
tion of  the  American  Association  of  Instructors  of  the  Blind,  held  at  Berkeley,  Cal., 
June  28-30,  1915. 

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ligent  visitor  look  in  upon  the  group  at  periods  of 
three  months,  she  would  be  astonished  each  time 
at  the  progress  made.  The  fond  parents  are  natu- 
rally delighted  and  eagerly  return  the  children  after 
vacations.  What  we  have  done  so  far  has  resulted 
from  the  simple  hygienic  routine  of  the  kinder- 
garten family  life.  For  the  first  time  since  birth  the 
whole  child  has  been  put  at  work,  and  his  growth 
has  been  by  leaps  and  bounds.  As  I  write  the  older 
and  stronger  boys  of  my  own  Kindergarten  are  car- 
rying their  mattresses  downstairs  to  be  beaten  and 
sunned  upon  the  grass.  How  big  and  smart  the 
little  fellows  feel!  Yes,  this  is  the  formative  stage, 
the  stage  of  maximum  growth  of  body  and  soul, 
and  it  would  appear  as  though  coming  under  such 
stimulative  influence  as  we  there  supply  ought  to  be 
the  privilege  of  every  blind  child. 

I  have  said  that  the  parents  eagerly  return  their 
children  after  vacation.  It  is  their  confession  of  a 
sense  of  incompetence,  or  perhaps  more  truly  the 
sharing  of  the  prevailing  feeling  which  most  parents 
seem  to  have,  that  the  responsibility  of  training 
children  is  the  teacher's,  not  theirs.  In  proportion  as 
this  is  true  must  we  strive  to  catch  our  pupils  early, 
and  only  in  proportion  as  home  conditions  change 
and  responsibilities  are  met  there  would  it  appear 
wise  to  resort  to  other  means  of  instruction  than 
that  supplied  in  our  institutions.  We  must  all  be 
interested  in  the  public  school  movement  for  the 
blind  and  be  watchful  supporters  of  it;    neverthe- 

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less,  I  must  still  believe  that,  as  society  is  now  con- 
stituted, the  blind  child  would  best  spend  his  kin- 
dergarten and  primary  years  at  the  residential 
school;  for  there  the  conditions  of  correction,  of 
equal  competition  and  of  nutrition  best  favor  his 
symmetrical  development. 

''But  the  world  is  not  like  life  in  the  institution," 
say  the  proponents  of  the  public  school.  Very  true; 
and  it  may  eventually  prove  wise  for  us  to  con- 
duct only  a  small  grammar  school  department, 
graduating  most  of  the  boys  and  girls  of  this  age 
back  home  and  into  the  public  school  wherever 
conditions  admit  of  it.  The  object  of  this  would  be 
to  restore  the  child,  while  still  formative,  to  the 
normal  competition  of  the  world  he  must  live  in  and 
to  replace  upon  the  parents  the  proper  responsi- 
bility for  their  handicapped  offspring.  The  better 
to  serve  this  plan  the  institutions  would  have  both 
to  co-operate  with  the  public  schools  and  with  the 
parents.  That  is,  we  should  bring  about  such  modi- 
fications in  the  public  school  curriculum  as  would 
free  at  least  the  blind  child  from  the  limitations  of 
that  system.  It  is  delightful  to  know  that  the  pres- 
ence of  the  blind  child  is  tonic  and  makes  for  tender- 
ness to  his  seeing  schoolmates;  but  the  greatest 
good  of  the  blind  child  must  be  furthered  also.  If 
the  pedagogic  use  of  color  and  picture  and  drawing 
is  potent  to  the  former,  that  of  music  is  potent  to 
the  latter;  as  are  also  physical  and  manual  training. 
Many  of  the  things  which  the  average  child  learns 

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out  of  school  must  be  added  to  the  school  curric- 
ulum of  the  blind  child;  for  instance,  he  must  have 
vastly  more  physical  and  corrective  work,  vastly 
more  manual  training.  Co-operation  with  the  par- 
ents should  be  fostered  by  getting  the  mother  or 
sister  to  spend  a  day  at  the  institution  before  the 
child  leaves  it  and  by  showing  her  how  the  children 
there  are  made  equal  to  their  daily  duties.  Even 
though  the  child  is  not  leaving  school,  if  we  can  get 
the  home  to  adopt  some  of  the  institution  regimen, 
we  are  helping  ourselves  and  the  child.  A  wise 
kindergartner  once  gave  me  this  point,  and  I  have 
lived  to  thank  her  for  it. 

If  we  do  not  co-operate  with  public  school  and 
parent,  the  children  will  most  likely  suffer  through 
the  transfer.  If,  however,  we  continue  to  keep  our 
grammar  school  children,  we  assume  the  duties  of 
both  parent  and  teacher;  then  the  burden  will  re- 
main with  us  to  see  to  it  that  our  residential  schools 
reduce  to  a  minimum  their  most  vulnerable  feature 
—  the  artificial  environment  with  which  they  tend 
to  surround  their  pupils,  the  fairy-tale-like  magic 
with  which  things  and  events  come  to  pass  —  all 
out  of  relation  to  the  personal  effort  put  forth. 
Blind  people  of  all  others  must  not  grow  up  to  feel 
that  things  ''just  happen"  or  ''do  themselves;"  for 
if  so,  tragedy  will  surely  foUov/. 

You  know  very  well  how  deeply  I  have  felt  my 
responsibility  in  rehabilitating  a  second  institution, 
also  with  what  care  I  have  tried  to  meet  it.     The 

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means  adopted  need  not  be  restated  in  detail.  I  re- 
built for  all  the  school  departments  —  kindergarten, 
primary,  grammar  and  high  —  which  fact  indicates 
an  abiding  faith  in  the  possibilities  of  the  complete 
institution.  But  I  did  not  build  larger,  only  better, 
in  order  to  approach  the  ideals  formed  through  long 
and  wide  experience.  The  institution  will  soon  be 
full;  but  I  have  faith,  too,  in  the  splendid  move- 
ment for  the  prevention  of  unnecessary  blindness, 
and  in  the  extension  of  public  school  classes  for  the 
semi-sighted  and  for  the  blind,  and  I  confidently 
look  forward  to  the  day  when  all  three  shall  work 
together  for  the  sole  end  of  being  of  most  service  to 
the  individual  child. 

But  as  to  the  residential  school,  let  it  beware  of 
keeping  its  pupils  too  long,  of  giving  them  too  much 
for  nothing,  of  providing  too  many  things  ready 
made  and  kept  in  repair  by  experts,  of  having  too 
fixed  a  routine  and  of  living  a  life  almost  freed  from 
responsibility;  in  short,  let  it  beware  of  institution- 
alizing its  pupils.  Now,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  cor- 
porate nature  of  such  a  school  furnishes  us  advan- 
tages which  we  should  be  quick  to  seize.  A  dozen 
years  ago  I  felt  it  to  be  no  necessary  part  of  the  in- 
stitution's responsibility  to  require  more  of  the 
pupils  than  good  behavior  and  strict  attention  to 
health  and  school  studies.  I  now  feel  that,  when  the 
boarding  school  receives  a  child,  it  assumes  also  the 
parental  responsibility  of  promoting  in  every  way 
the  education  of  that  child  towards  social  efficiency. 

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It  may  be  difficult  for  us  to  do  this,  but  it  is  our 
task  nevertheless,  and  we  cannot  justly  argue  our- 
selves out  of  a  position  of  responsibility  towards  it. 
We  say  our  duty  is  to  lift  as  many  as  possible  on  to 
the  plane  of  self-support.  Of  course;  but  blind 
people  cannot  so  easily  as  others  learn  to  meet  the 
emergencies  of  daily  life  unless  accustomed  to  meet 
them  day  by  day.  Therefore,  we  should  eagerly 
seize  the  opportunities  of  our  community  life  and 
make  every  one  in  it  ''a  self-respecting,  co-operating 
agent  in  the  enterprise."  It  has  been  my  recent  for- 
tune to  be  able  to  rebuild  on  the  plan  best  adapted 
to  promote  this  sort  of  thing,  the  small  cottage 
family  plan,  and  by  so  doing  to  have  opened  up  for 
my  boys  the  splendid  opportunity  for  growth  and 
social  efficiency  my  girls  already  had.  This  is 
through  simple  housework  done  every  day.  Every- 
body contributes.  And  it  assures  not  only  a  happier, 
more  frictionless  household  but  also  a  less  expensive 
one;  for  to  my  own  surprise  I  find  that  the  closer 
care  and  attention  to  waste  and  the  practicability  of 
using  left-overs  in  the  small  family  plan  makes  the 
cost  of  food  less  than  in  the  congregate  plan.  I  feel 
that  an  example  of  proper  economy  is  of  the  greatest 
value  to  blind  people  who  especially  need  to  learn 
lessons  of  thrift.  The  hours  of  school  are  not  one 
whit  curtailed  on  account  of  the  housework  done  by 
the  pupils;  but  if  they  had  to  be,  I  should  continue 
the  system  just  the  same. 

This   kind   of   socialized   education   may   not   be 

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practical  in  the  congregate  institution.     Then  seek 
some  other  channel  of  supplying  it,  even  if  only  to 
fill  in  profitably  the  free-time  gaps  in  the  grammar 
school  period  of  adolescence.     This  is  the  time  of 
greatest   responsibility.      Hence   we   have   all   wel- 
comed   athletics.      Some    schools    have    introduced 
gardening,   some  poultry  keeping,   still  others  the 
boy-scout   and   the    camp-fire    movements  —  those 
magnificent  conceptions  which  are  big  with  promise 
according  to  the  spirit  of  their  leaders.    A  few  have 
turned  their  boys'  shop  or  one  of  their  shops  into  a 
laboratory  potentially  equipped  with  all  manner  of 
facilities  for  doing  and  making  things  dear  to  the 
heart  of  boyhood,  and  after  discovering  a  man  who 
is  at  once  a  mechanic  of  resourcefulness  and  vision 
and  a  real  boy  leader,  have  bidden  him  develop  his 
opportunities  to  the  utmost,  being  present  in  his 
shop  in  free  time,  of  course;    for  then  is  his  greatest 
chance.    Boys  will  flock  to  such  a  place  even  from 
the  playground  and  develop  there  a  capacity  sur- 
prising   aUke   to    themselves    and    to    their    school 
teachers;    for  capacity  grows  with  interest,  and  in- 
terest aroused  and  sustained   through   self-activity 
under  inspirational  guidance  is  more  potent  than 
that  exacted  in  a  fixed  course  of  study  or  exercises. 
Therefore,   hold  your  man  when  you  have  found 
him,  paying  him,  if  necessary,  more  than  any  other 
teacher,  even  though  doing  so  requires  that  you  econ- 
omize in  any  other  school  department  whatsoever; 
for  after  all  he  is  the  real  educator  who  teaches  not 


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subjects  but  boys,  and  your  laboratory  shop  is  one 
of  his  most  fertile  fields.  The  newest  and  finest 
family  boarding  school  for  rich  boys  which  I  visited 
in  Germany  four  years  ago  and  for  the  privilege  of 
seeing  which  I  had  to  obtain  a  permit  from  the 
governmental  department  of  education,  the  Arndt 
Gymnasium  near  Berlin,  was  equipped  with  this 
kind  of  free-time  laboratory.  The  same  principle  is 
carried  out  and  improved  upon  here  at  home  in 
orphanages  just  outside  of  New  York  City,  the  New 
York  Orphan  Asylum  and  the  Hebrew  Sheltering 
Guardian  Society.  Study  Dr.  Reeder's  book,  "How 
two  hundred  children  live  and  learn,"  or  better  still 
visit  both  these  cottage  family  homes,  and  while  visit- 
ing go  also  to  Virginia  to  see  Hampton  Institute. 

A  rich  man  once  asked  where  the  best  school 
might  be  and  was  told  ''at  Hampton."  ''Ah,  but 
that  is  for  negroes  and  Indians,"  he  exclaimed.  "I 
cannot  send  my  boy  there."  "No,"  was  the  reply. 
"Your  boy  is  white,  and  therefore  the  best  school 
in  the  land  is  closed  to  him."  Do  you  ask  why 
Hampton  and  Tuskegee  are  the  best  schools?  I 
answer,  visit  them  long  enough,  and  you  will  per- 
ceive why.  Their  course  of  training  is  not  tainted, 
as  much  as  ours  still  is,  with  the  Roman  ideal  of 
training  a  ruling  class.  No;  their  course  is  based 
upon  what  is  most  adapted  to  make  the  laborer 
worthy  of  his  hire  and  keep  him  so,  to  make  him 
enjoy  his  work  and  not  strive  to  shirk  it;  for  the 
consciousness  of  being  a  producer  is  after  all  the 

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greatest  source  of  happiness.  Moreover,  the  Hamp- 
ton graduate  is  made  to  feel  that  his  color  is  a  badge 
to  be  hved  up  to,  that  it  imposes  obligations  to  his 
race  which  it  becomes  his  dearest  privilege  to  meet. 
The  Hampton  graduate  is  therefore  really  and  truly 
educated;  for  he  is  fitted  to  live  with  his  kind,  be- 
cause he  is  acceptable  both  for  what  he  can  produce 
and  what  he  is  —  in  other  words,  he  is  socially 
educated. 

When  the  graduates  of  such  orphanages  and  in- 
stitutions go  out  into  the  world  places  are  found  for 
them  to  fill;  but  the  important  point  is,  they  fill 
them.  This  is  because  the  youth  who  has  been 
socially  efficient  in  the  community  of  youth  is  the 
better  able  to  be  so  in  the  community  of  men. 

Some  of  our  schools  employ  field  officers,  to  follow 
up  or  otherwise  promote  the  employment  of  their 
graduates.  And  every  time  we  succeed  in  placing 
one  we  are  very  happy.  The  difficulty  here  is 
largely  in  having  our  ex-pupil  keep  his  job  after 
getting  it.  We  have  no  right  to  attribute  this  fail- 
ure so  much  to  public  prejudice  to  employing  the 
blind  or  even  to  the  limitations  of  blindness  itself 
as  to  the  shortcomings  of  our  system  of  educating 
the  blind.  Our  trouble  has  been  —  at  least,  I  feel 
that  mine  has  —  that  our  training  has  been  voca- 
tional at  the  expense  of  all-round  education;  for 
example,  our  girls  who  can  be  spared  from  home 
should  not  only  be  willing  to  accept  places  as 
mothers'   helpers,   and  some  of  our  boys  as  dish- 

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washers,  and  the  hke,  and  in  these  positions  be  effi- 
cient and  personally  acceptable,  but  they  should 
jump  at  the  chance  to  be  employed  at  something 
honorable,  however  humble,  rather  than  be  con- 
sumers of  the  bounty  of  others.  Making  good  in 
life  depends  as  truly  upon  tact  as  upon  talent.  A 
good  motto  for  the  blind  is  ''Be  useful  and  you  will 
be  used;"  but,  in  order  to  get  the  chance  and  to 
keep  it,  they  must  cultivate  the  Graces  as  well  as 
the  Muses  —  in  other  words,  make  themselves  ac- 
ceptable to  the  communities  they  live  in.  This 
personality  for  service  is  better  than  learning,  and 
those  of  the  blind  who  possess  it,  by  the  very  ex- 
ample of  their  courage,  become  a  blessing  to  society 
and  a  joy  to  themselves. 

The  blind  cannot  demand  what  they  consider 
their  rights,  lest  in  so  doing  they  lose  their  privileges. 
They  must  get,  through  deserving  and  through 
winning.  They  know  that  their  condition  is  a  re- 
sponsibility, that  what  one  of  them  does  reflects  on 
the  whole  number  of  the  blind,  that  they  are  con- 
sidered by  others  a  class;  but  they  too  often  forget 
it.  Because  a  similar  thing  has  occurred  several 
times  in  the  last  few  years  I  want  to  tell  of  a  hap- 
pening in  my  State  which  illustrates  what  I  have 
just  said.  A  blind  girl  graduate  of  our  school,  by 
demanding  through  lawyers  and  through  public 
hearings  the  right  to  do  practice  teaching  in  a  pub- 
lic school  as  part  of  her  normal  school  course  has 
closed  the  State  normal  schools  of  Massachusetts  to 

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the  blind  for  I  don't  know  how  long,  and  this  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  graduates  of  the  Perkins  In- 
stitution have  been  welcomed  in  them  for  over 
thirty  years. 

Let  me  close  with  perhaps  the  latest  development 
of  our  work.  The  whole  ideal  of  education  is  rap- 
idly changing.  We  are  in  a  stage  of  experimentation. 
Sober  happiness  in  this  world  rather  than  in  another 
is  our  goal.  Our  age  is  one  of  determined  optimism. 
We  believe  we  can  fit  every  man  to  do  with  joy  his 
own  part  of  the  world's  work.  In  America  no  man 
belongs  to  a  class  and  is  born  to  take  up  the  work 
of  that  class.  Each  must  find  his  own  work,  fit  for 
it,  and  do  it  gladly. 

Blindness  is  a  handicap,  and  the  man  in  the  race 
with  a  handicap  has  to  put  forth  the  more  energy. 
But  just  here  comes  in  a  help  which  our  schools  can 
give.  As  our  public  schools  have  now  their  school 
visitors,  our  big  department  stores  their  social 
worker,  our  hospitals  their  follow-up  agent,  so  the 
right  kind  of  graduate  employed  by  the  institution 
to  visit  parents,  making  explanations  and  sugges- 
tions, following  up  discouraged  ex-pupils  and  giving 
them  encouragement  and  advice,  as  some  of  our 
field  officers  do,  multiplies  the  value  of  the  school. 
Where  there  is  a  Commission  for  the  blind  we  are 
freed  from  some  of  the  larger  tasks  of  securing  em- 
ployment, to  take  up  the  more  intimate  social  work 
for  the  institution  itself. 

EDWARD   E.  ALLEN. 

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1832-1915 

GRADUATING   EXERCISES   OF   THE   PERKINS    INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Wednesday,  June  23,  1915,  10  a.m. 

Program. 
Organ  prelude  at  9.45  o'clock: 

Fugue  in  G  Minor, Bcu^ 

Processional  Grand  March, Whitney 

Francis  Connor 

Choral,  "Grant  us  to  do  with  Zeal," Bach 

Essays: 

Where  Massachusetts  trains  for  Household 

Efficiency, Ethel  May  Stevens 

Authors  at  Work, Edna  May  Abbott 

Pianoforte  solo,  "Barcarolle," Tschaikowsky 

Nettie  Caroline  Gray 
Essays: 

Favorite  Lakes, '  Ethel  May  Lapham 

Kindergarten  Memories, Margaret  Miller 

The  Bronte  Sisters, Elizabeth  Forrest 

Pianoforte  solo,  Andante  et  Rondo, Rosejihain 

Marian  Coohdge  Sibley 
Selections  from  essays: 

Communism  and  the  Family  under  Sociahsm, 

Hermann  Martin  Immeln 
The  Uses  and  Protection  of  Birds,  Warren  Albert  Morrill 
The  Unification  of  Germany,        .       .          David  Olin  Robertson 
Modern  Tendencies  in  American  City  Govern- 
ment,      Joseph  Patrick  Devine 

1  Excused. 

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Address, Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham 

Presentation  of  Diplomas  and  Certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-third  Psahn,"  ....       Neidlinger 

Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1915. 


Edna  May  Abbott. 
Joseph  Patrick  Devine. 
Elizabeth  Forrest. 
Nettie  Caroline  Gray. 
Hermann  Martin  Immeln. 


Ethel  May  Lapham. 
Margaret  Miller. 
Warren  Albert  Morrill. 
David  Ohn  Robertson. 
Marian  Coolidge  Sibley. 


Ethel  May  Stevens. 

Pianoforte  Normal  Department. 
Alice  Hollowell.  Juliet  Rosaley  Perrella. 

Pianoforte  Tuning  Department. 
Maurice  I.  Tynan.  |  Jacob  Wallockstein. 

Class  Colors:  Red  and  White.  Class  Flower:  White  Rose. 

Class  Motto:  Ad  astra  per  aspera. 


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SEVENTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 
School  for  the  Blind 

IN  THE  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at 
Watertown,  Wednesday  Evening,  May  19,  1915,  at  8.15  o'clock. 

Part  One. 

The  Vagabonds, Eaion  Faning 

Wynken,  Blynken  and  Nod, Ethelbert  Nevin 

Chorus  of  Homage, Wilhelm  Gericke 

VioUn  soli  by  Mr.  Little: 

Minuet  in  G, Beethoven 

Hungarian  Dance, Keler-Bela 

Part-songs  by  the  Girls'  Glee  Club: 

Happy  Birds, Eduard  Hoist 

Kerry  Dance, J-  L.  Molloy 

Organ  solo  by  Mr.  Cobb : 

Andante  con  Varia, Calkin 

Bridal  Chorus  from  the  "Rose  Maiden,"    .       .       .       .  F.  H.  Cowen 

Part  Two. 
The  Death  of  Minnehaha,  a  cantata  for  chorus 

with  soprano  and  baritone  soli,     .       .       .      ;S.  Coleridge-Taylor 

The  choir  will  have  the  assistance  of 
Mrs.  Myra  S.  Goodwin,  Soprano,  and  Mr.  Allen  Ralph  Tailby, 

Baritone. 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Concerts,  Recitals  and 

Operas. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  C.  A. 
Ellis,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts 
in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mrs.  A.  Lincoln  Filene,  for  twenty-four  tickets  for  a 
concert  at  the  Boston  Music  School  Settlement;  and  for  six 
tickets  for  each  of  a  series  of  concerts  and  recitals  at  Boston 
Theatre. 

To  the  Symphony  Hall  Management,  for  twelve  tickets 
for  a  pianoforte  recital  by  Rudolf  Ganz,  and  also  for  one  by 
Franklin  Cannon. 

To  Mr.  Stephen  Townsend,  for  twenty-one  tickets  for  a 
concert  bj^  the  Choral  Society. 

To  Mrs.  J.  F.  Spalding,  for  a  general  invitation  to  a 
recital  by  Miss  Butler  in  the  new  Music  Building  at  Har- 
vard University. 

To  Mr.  H.  G.  Tucker,  for  twelve  tickets  for  a  rehearsal 
by  the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society. 

To  Mr.  A.  Alonzo  Huse,  for  twenty-five  tickets  for  an 
entertainment  in  St.  John's  M.  E.  Church,  Watertown. 

To  Mr.  Henry  Jewett  and  Mr.  W.  R.  McDonald, 
through  Mr.  Richard  Davis,  for  ninety-seven  tickets  for 
the  Jewett  Players'  performance  of  "A  Midsummer  Night's 
Dream"  at  Boston  Opera  House. 

To  Mr.  H.  S.  Haskins,  Secretary  of  the  Education  Com- 

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mittee  of  the  Massachusetts  Peace  Society,  and  to  Mr. 
H.  S.  Cunningham,  for  an  average  of  six  tickets  for  each 
of  a  series  of  authors'  readings  at  Copley-Plaza  Hotel, 
Boston. 

To  the  Management  of  Majestic  Theatre,  Boston,  for  a 
general  invitation  to  a  performance  of  "The  Bluebird." 

II. — Acknowledgments  for  Recitals  and  Lectures 
in  our  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  for  a  lecture  on  "The  Fall  of  Con- 
stantinople in  1453." 

To  Prof.  Carl  Faelten,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mr.  Newton  Newkirk,  for  a  humorous  talk. 

To  Dr.  John  Dixwell,  curator  of  the  Hospital  Music 
Fund,  for  a  concert. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Prof.  Marshall  L.  Perrin,  for  a  lecture  on  "Life 
among  the  Indians." 

To  Miss  Marion  Chapin,  for  an  organ  recital. 

To  Mr.  Charles  C.  Gorst,  for  a  lecture  on  "Bird  Music." 

To  Miss  Dora  Kirwin,  for  a  reading  of  "Monsieur 
Beaucaire." 

III.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Periodicals  and  News- 
papers. 

American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed).  Christian  Register,  Christian  Science 
Journal,  Christian  Science  Sentinel,  Colorado  Index,  Eastern 
and  Western  Review,  Harper's  Weekly,  McClure's  Magazine, 
Matilda  Zeigler  Magazine  for  the  Blind  (embossed).  The 
Mentor,  Michigan  Mirror,  New  England  Journal  of  Educa- 

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tion,  Ohio  Chronicle,  Our  Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent  Worker, 
The  Theosophical  Path,  The  Washingtonian,  The  Well- 
Spring,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman's  Journal,  Youth's 
Companion. 

IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

Dr.  E.  G.  Brackett,  Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr. 
Harold  B.  Chandler,  for  professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
Peter  Bent  Brigham  Hospital  and  Psychopathic  Hos- 
pital, for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Miss  Mary  C.  Learned,  Mrs.  Larz  Anderson,  Mrs. 
Walter  C.  Baylies  and  Mr.  Dennis  A.  Reardon,  executor 
of  the  Blaisdell  Estate,  for  gifts  of  money. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley,  Mrs. 
H.  J.  CooLiDGE,  Mrs.  WoLCOTT  Calkins,  Dr.  W.  D.  Inglis, 
Mr.  Frank  McLaughlin  and  Mr.  J.  L.  Putnam,  for  fruit, 
confectionery  and  ice-cream. 

Mrs.  L.  N.  Veo  and  Mrs.  George  N.  Chamberlain,  for 
clothing. 

Mrs.  W.  M.  PiNGREE,  for  toys. 

Miss  Amelia  Schwartz,  for  books. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 


Abbott,  Josephine  E. 
Alexander,  M.  Alicia. 
Anderson,  Muriel  C. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Billow,  Ruth  K. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Brannick,  Elizabeth. 
Brooks,  Edna  S. 
Brown,  Bertha. 
Burnham,  Ruth  E. 
Chesson,  Marion. 
Coffey,  Angela  L. 
Cohen,  Alice. 
Cross,  Helen  A. 
Dart,  M.  Fernette. 
Davenport,  Anna  A. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Duffy,  Nelly. 
Duke,  Marion  W. 
Elder,  Gladys  M. 
Essensa,  Alice  J. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Fishman,  Eva. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
French,  Agnes  G. 
Gadbois,  Roselma. 
Gagnon,  Albertina. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Galvin,  Rose. 
Gorman,  Marie  T. 


Gray,  Nettie  C. 
Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Hamilton,  Annie  A. 
Harlow,  Gertrude  S. 
Hill,  Lila  N. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Jackson,  Harriet  B. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kimball,  Eleanor. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Levesque,  Mary  A. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
MacEachran,  Catherine. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Martin,  Lea. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Minahan,  Annie  E. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Parcher,  F.  Mabel. 
Perry,  Gertrude. 
Pilling,  Agnes. 
Pinto,  Minnie  P. 
Rissman,  Lillian. 
Ross,  Lena. 
Sibley,  Marian  C. 


46 


Siebert,  Bessie  L, 
Spencer,  Olive  E. 
Stearns,  Gladys  L. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Stewart,  Alice  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thompson,  Mary, 
Thurley,  Blanche  M. 
Uhrig,  Mary  G. 
Vilaine,  Mary  C. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Welch,  Ellen. 
Willey,  Bessie  M. 
Wilson,  R.  Edris. 
Wood,  Adeline  H. 
Abbott,  Charles  A. 
Baskin,  Morris  H. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bonasera,  Joseph. 
Brooks,  Harold  D. 
Brown,  A.  Stanley. 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Chapman,  John  C. 
Clarke,  Jerold  P. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Connor,  Francis. 
Cooney,  John. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Crowell,  Arthur  A. 
Culprizio,  John. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
Depoian,  Hrant  G. 
Devine,  Joseph  P. 
Dow,  Basil  E. 
Duffy,  Eugene  J. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Ferron,  Homer. 


Fitzgerald,  James  P. 
Fontana,  Dominic. 
Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Gifford,  Shirley  M.  A. 
Grant,  Alfred. 
Greene,  George. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Hennick,  Harold. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N. 
Howard,  Thomas. 
Immeln,  Hermann  M. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Jameson,  Paul. 
Johnson,  Emil. 
Kelly,  Robert  E. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
Mack,  Francis  J. 
McBride,  Thomas  T. 
McFarlane,  James. 
Medeiros,  Joseph. 
Meuse,  Dennie  S. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Phelps,  I.  Walter. 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Reeves,  W.  Stanley. 
Roaf,  Charles  A. 
Roberts,  Chester  N. 
Robertson,  D.  Olin. 
Ryan,  Frank. 
Salesses,  Adrian. 
Salmon,  Peter  J. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Sharp,  William  F. 
Sliney,  Maurice. 
Spence,  Samuel  J. 


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Sullivan,  Arthur  F. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Thibeault,  George. 
Tobin,  Paul. 
Walker,  Roger  T. 


Ward,  Frederick. 
Weaver,  John  J. 
Wilcox,  J.  Earl. 
Yott,  Louis. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


48 


LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT   THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Byk,  Stella. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Cassavaugh,  Nellie  J. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Davis,  Mary. 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Freeman,  Edith  M. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Grent,  Josephine. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 


Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Ramsey,  Mildred  M. 
Rapoza,  Evangeline  S. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Samson,  Bertha. 
Sannicandro,  Josephine. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Savage,  Mary. 
Shea,  Mary  E. 
Simmons,  Bertha. 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 


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Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Caisse,  George  T. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
CuUen,  George  F. 
Curley,  Joseph  H. 
Delouchery,  A.  Ivan. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Dibble,  Vernon  C. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 
Earle,  Clarence  H. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Hanaford,  Clarence  E. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Hennick,  Dominick  A. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Lillie,  Karl  C. 


MacGinnis,  Raymond  L. 
Maziall,  J.  Herbert. 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Pearlstein,  David. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Perreault,  J.  Edward. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Poline,  John  J. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Riddell,  David. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  William. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Thibeault,  Arthur. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 


50 


SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THOMAS  STRINGER. 


From  September  1,  1914,  to  August  31,  1915 

Brown,  Mrs.  J.  Conklin,  Berkeley,  Cal.,  .... 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B.,       . 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D.,   .  .  .  . 


$10  00 

50 

00 

5 

00 

25 

00 

$90  00 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 


[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  understanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  Uving,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  appUed  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blmd  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend, $50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,         .......     100  GO 

$150  00 


51 


Boston,  Mass.,  November  11,  1915. 

Trustees  of  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind. 

Gentlemen:  —  In  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  Trustees,  we 
have  employed  Edwin  L.  Pride  and  Co.  (Inc.),  Certified  PubUc  Ac- 
countants, to  audit  the  books  of  the  Treasurer  and  the  accounts  at  the 
Institution,  and  transmit  herewith  their  report. 

Yours  very  truly, 

WARREN  MOTLEY, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  Jr., 

Auditors. 

Boston,  November  11,  1915. 

Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins 
Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Gentlemen:  —  At  your  request  we  have  audited  the  accounts  of 
William  Endicott,  Treasurer  of  the  Institution,  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  August  31,  1915.  We  have  found  that  all  income  from  invest- 
ments and  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  securities  during  the  year  have 
been  accounted  for  and  that  the  donations,  subscriptions  and  mis- 
cellaneous receipts  as  shown  by  the  books  have  been  deposited  in  the 
bank  to  the  credit  of  the  Institution. 

We  have  vouched  all  disbursements,  checked  the  postings  and 
footings  of  the  various  general  books  of  account,  and  verified  the 
bank  balances  as  at  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year. 

We  have  made  an  examination  of  the  stocks  and  bonds  on  hand 
in  the  custody  of  the  Treasurer  which  were  found  to  agree  with  the 
books. 

We  hereby  certify  that  the  following  statements  of  the  Treasurer 
correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
August  31,  1915. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDWIN  L.  PRIDE  AND  CO.  (Incorporated), 

By  Edwin  L.  PRros, 
Certified  Public  Accountant. 

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The  following  account  exhibits  the  state  of  property  as 
entered  upon  the  books  of  the  Institution  September  1, 
1915:  — 


House,  20  Wall  St.,  Charlestown, 
Houses,  64  and  66  Walker  St.,  Charlestown, 
Unimproved  land.  South  Boston, 
Building,  205-207  Congress  St., 
Building,  58-60  South  St.,  .... 


Real  Estate  used  by  the  Institution. 
Workshop   buildings,   545-549   East   Fourth 

South  Boston, 

Real  Estate,  Watertown, 


St. 


Stocks  and  Bonds. 

6  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co., 
4  shares  Amherst  Gas  Co., 
250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred, 

4  shares  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co., 

5  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust, 

7  shares  Boston  «fe  Lowell  R.R.  Co., 
16  shares  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  Co.,  common 

2  shares  Boston  &  Providence  R.R.  Co.,  . 
9  shares  Boston  Personal  Property  Trust, 

3  shares  Boston  Real  Estate  Trust,  . 

3  shares  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Co., 

1  share  Fitchburg  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Co., 

7  shares  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  preferred,    . 

4  shares  GriflSn  Wheel  Co.,  preferred, 

2  shares  Merchants  National  Bank  of  Boston, 
1  share  National  Union  Bank  of  Boston, 

3  shares  New  England  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co. 

8  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R 
Co 


4  shares  Old  Colony  R.R.  Co 

2  shares  Pittsfield  &  North  Adams  R.R.  Co., 
State  National  Bank  (for  2  shares  liquidation  re 

ceipt), 

102  shares  United  Shoe  Machinery  Co.,  common, 

1  share  Vermont  &  Massachusetts  R.R.  Co., 

3  shares  Walter  Baker  Co.,  Ltd., 

5  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common, 

2  shares  Western  Real  Estate  Trust, 

6  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,    . 


Book  Value. 

$2,700  00 

5,200  00 

1,000  00 

76,800  00 

122,244  16 


$8,647  74 
676,413  65 


$596  00 

560  00 

25,000  00 

720  50 

600  00 

1,050  00 
840  00 
510  00 
990  00 

3,200  00 
777  30 
118  00 
612  00 
400  00 
680  00 
200  00 
399  75 

616  50 
592  00 
200  00 

1  36 
6,030  07 
130  00 
1,200  00 
339  00 
264  00 
378  00 


$206,944  15 


685,061  39 


Amounts  carried  forward, $46,702  48     $892,005  54 


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Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward $46,702  48      $892,005  54 

$5,000  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929 4,450  00 

$35,000  Armour  &  Co.,  Note,  due  September  1915,  35,000  00 

$25,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  due  1934,   .  24,600  00 

$5,000  Central  District  Telephone  Co.,  1st  mort- 
gage 5s,  due  December  1943 5,000  00 

$37,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.,  gen- 
eral mortgage,  4s,  1958 35,600  00 

$25,000  Delaware  &  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding  4s, 

1943 24,600  00 

$25,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931, 22,857  14 

$25,000  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  48,  1949,       .  24,000  00 

$25,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4|s,  1931,  .  24,497  60 

$25,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1934 23,000  00 

$40,000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1955, 37,000  00 

$40,000  New  York,  Ontario  &  Western  R.R.,  48, 

1992 38,000  00 

$15,000  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.  Co.,  3is,  1926,  13,500  00 

$15,000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  43s, 

1960 15,681  25 

$26,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,     .        .  24,000  00 

398,088  37 

Accounts  receivable 1,484  25 

Petty  cash  funds 500  00 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer $19,116  31 

Director 2,241  62 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 733  90 

22,091  73 

Works  Department. 
Total  assets 11.784  25 

Music  Department. 

One  three-manual  pipe  organ, $8,500  00 

One  .^olian  grand, 260  00 

Two  reed  organs, 25  00 

Sixty-three  pianofortes, 9,900  00 

Thirty-six  orchestral  instnunents 840  00 

Music  library 3,800  00 

23.315  00 

Amount  carried  forward, $1,349,269  14 


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Amount  brought  forward $1,349,269  14 

Library  Department. 

Books  in  common  print $10,235  42 

Books  in  embossed  print,     . 
Special  library 

Miscellaneous. 
School  furniture  and  apparatus, 
Household  furniture,     . 
Provisions  and  supplies, 

Boys'  shop, 

Stable  and  tools,    .... 


Book  Value. 

$10,235  42 

30,644 

12 

11,658 

96 

52,538 

50 

$6,523 

70 

9,719 

29 

1,165 

50 

496 

72 

350 

00 

18,255 

21 

$1,420,062 

85 

Donations,  Institution  Account. 


Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P., 
Ferris,  Miss  Mary  E.,  . 
Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 
Lillie,  Frances  C, 
Pratt.  R.  M., 
White,  C.  J.,  . 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 


$10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

300  00 

100  00 

25  00 

$450  00 

4,653  00 

$5,103  00 

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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same:  — 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 
General  funds  of  the  Institution, 
Stephen  Fairbanks  fund, 

Harris  fund, 

Richard  Perkins  fund, 
Stoddard  Capen  fund, 
In  memoriam,  Mortimer  C.  Ferris, 
Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft  fund,     . 
Frank  Davison  Rust  fund,  . 
Mary  Lowell  Stone  fund,     . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund, 
Accrued  interest  on  $2,000, 


,459  84 

10,000  00 

80,000  00 

20,000  00 

13,770  00 

1,000  00 

6,000  00 

2,500  00 

2,000  00 


$12,000  00 
96  00 


12,096  00 

$515,825  84 

Legacies:  — 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, $3,000  00 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 2,500  00 

Calvin  W.  Barker 1,859  32 

Miss  Lucy  A.  Barker 5,953  21 

Francis  Bartlett 2,500  00 

Miss  Mary  Bartol, 300  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 25,000  00 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind),  4,000  00 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 5,832  66 

William  T.  Bolton 555  22 

George  W.  Boyd 5,000  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 268,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 10,508  70 

J.  Edward  Brown, 100,000  00 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Burnham 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Eliza  Ann  Colburn, 5,000  00 

David  E.  Cummings 7,723  07 

I.  W.  Danforth 2,500  00 

Joseph  Descalzo 1,000  00 

John  W.  Dix 10,000  00 

Mary  E.  Eaton 5,000  00 

Martha  A.  French 164  40 

Thomas  Gaffield, 6,450  00 

Albert  Glover 1,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf,  dumb,  and  blind),        .  5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 5,000  00 

Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 6,471  23 

Charles  H.  Hayden 20,200  00 

Amounts  carried  forward, $516,231  55      $515,825  84 


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Amounts  brought  forward, $516,231  55     $515,825  84 

John  C.  Haynes 1,000  00 

Joseph  H.  Heywood, 500  00 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 3,708  32 

Benjamin  Humphrey, 25,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt, 10,000  00 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchinson, 2,156  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson, 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring 9,500  00 

Mrs.  Susan  B.  Lyman, 4,809  78 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .  15,000  00 

Stephen  W.  Marston 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam, 1,000  00 

George  Francis  Parkman 60,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Putnam 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Charlotte  B.  Richardson 40,507  00 

Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Richardson, 300  00 

Miss  Mary  L.  Ruggles, 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust 2,640  00 

William  A.  Rust 1,500  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer, 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield, 2,500  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey, 5,000  00 

Mary  W.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Ann  White  Vose, 12,994  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriet  Ware 1,952  02 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler 3,086  77 

Sarah  W.  Whitney, 150  62 

Mehitable  C.  C.  Wilson 543  75 

Thomas  Wyman 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young, 5,000  00 

802,990  42 

Loans  payable,  Kindergarten, 100,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 1,246  59 


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1915:  — 


PRINTING   DEPARTMENT. 

Stocks  and  Bonds.  Book  Value. 

400  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  .  $55,441  53 

95  shares  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co 23,038  87 

10  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust,      ...  900  00 

50  shares  General  Electric  Co., 5,505  12 

15  shares  Suffolk  Real  Estate  Trust,         .        .        .  15,000  00 

100  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       .  8,737  00 

100  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,  .  .  5,962  50 
$5,000   American   Coal   Product   Co.,    6%    notes, 

July  1,  1916, 4,875  00 

$30,000  Am.erican  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929 26,950  00 

$2,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Illinois 

Division),  3|s,  1949 1,800  00 

$10,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 .  9,300  00 

$10,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s,  1921,  .  10,000  00 
$25,000  Pennsylvania  R.R.  Co.,  convertible,  4|s, 

1960, 25,968  75 

$10,000  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R. 

(Montana  Extension),  4s,  1937 9,000  00 

$10,000  Seattle  Electric  Co.,  5s,  1930,       .        .        .  10,400  00 

$212,878  77 

Accounts  receivable, 40  45 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer $3,375  71 

Director, 268  48 

3,644  19 

Stock  and  machinery, $4,032  00 

Books  (bound  and  unbound)  and  sheet  music,         .  5,340  00 

Electrotype  and  stereotype  plates,     ....  25,003  00 

34,375  00 


$250,938  41 


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The  foregoing  property  represents  the  following  funds  and 
balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same:  — 

PRINTING   FUND. 
General  funds  of  the  Department,     ....    $234,413  66 
The  Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  fund  (bequest  of 

Mary  M.  S.  Spaulding) 5,000  00 

$239,413  66 

Legacies:  — 

Joseph  H.  Center $1,000  00 

Augusta  Well, 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable 234  75 

$250,938  41 


Works  Department. 

Balance  Sheet  —  August  31,  1915. 
Assets. 

Cash, ■     .        .        .        .  $591  92 

Accounts  receivable, 4,754  87 

Stock  on  hand,  material,  etc., 4,028  46 

Tools  and  equipment, 2,409  00 

$11,784  25 

Liabilities. 
Balance  due  Institution :  — 

Current  account, $12,515  87 

Total  loss  for  year 731  62 

11,784  25 

Profit  and  Loss  Account. 

Revenue. 

Sales,  repairs,  etc., 26,277  55 

Expenditures. 

Materials  used, $8,913  89 

Salaries  and  wages, 14,042  23 

General  expense, 3,954  96 

26,911  08 

Loss,        . $633  53 

Add:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,     .  $101  00 

Bad  accounts  written  off 155  45 

$256  45 
Less:  — 
Sundry   accounts   receivable,    credit 

balances  written  off,     .        .        .  $146  76 

Recovered  from  bad  accounts,    .        .  11  60 

158  36 

98  09 

Total  loss  for  year  ending  August  31,  1915,     ....  $731  62 


64 


ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND   OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Institution. 

Meats  and  fish $3,748  59 

Milk  and  dairy  products, 4,102  67 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 1,492  91 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 430  72 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables 1,532  44 

Ice 245  05 

Laundry,  engine  room,  and  refrigerating  plant,       ....  331  91 

Light,  heat,  and  power, 6,882  22 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods 1,270  30 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous 724  10 

Salaries  and  wages 34,152  56 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies 276  69 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 570  72 

Taxes  and  insurance, 1,142  74 

Repairs 2,248  03 

■  General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 603  62 

Officers'  salaries, 5,440  40 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 917  56 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    .        .  89  15 

Stable  expenses, 250  27 

Expenses  on  property  let, 4,364  81 

Bills  to  be  refunded, 5,666  98 

New  furnishings, ^^^  ^^ 

Real  estate  and  buildings 292  46 

Harris  Beneficiaries, 1,070  00 

Extraordinary  expenses, 1' 1  "2 

Workshop  appropriation, 1,260  10 

Sundry  expenses, 260  13 

Maintaining  Tuning  Department 2,041  53 

Maintaining  Industrial  Department, 208  59 

Maintaining  Works  Department 26,584  70 

$109,317  00 

Less  discounts  allowed 126  75 

$109,190  25 


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ANALYSIS  OF  MAINTENANCE  ACCOUNT 
AND  OTHER  SUNDRY  EXPENSES. 


Kindergarten. 

Meats  and  fish, $2,368  99 

Milk  and  dairy  products, 4,008  04 

Bread,  groceries,  etc., 1,650  19 

Sugar,  tea,  and  coffee, 430  72 

Fruits,  fresh  and  dried,  and  vegetables, 1,295  10 

Ice 245  11 

Laundry,  engine  room,  and  refrigerating  plant,       ....  327  04 

Light,  heat,  and  power, 6,511  07 

Furnishings  and  dry  goods 1,056  94 

Household  supplies,  miscellaneous, 573  48 

Salaries  and  wages, 24,833  99 

Musical  instruments  and  supplies, 20  21 

Manual  training  and  school  supplies, 446  77 

Taxes  and  insurance 1,363  25 

Repairs 1,554  54 

General  maintenance,  miscellaneous, 718  10 

Officers'  salaries, 6,265  84 

Stationery,  books,  etc., 848  76 

Administrative  and  management  expenses,  miscellaneous,    .        .  698  80 

Stable  expenses, 250  39 

Expenses  on  property  let 4,124  57 

Bills  to  be  refunded 875  85 

New  furnishings 1,246  38 

Real  estate  and  buildings, 1,004  47 

Appropriation,  Abner  Post, 1,000  00 

Extraordinary  expenses, 204  68 

Exposition  appropriation, 893  75 

Sundry  expenses 168  05 

$63,985  08 

Less  discounts  allowed, 95  63 

$63,889  45 


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1915:— 


Building,  250-252  Purchase  St., 
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Book  Value. 
$76,800  00 
142,737  75 
110,000  00 

85,000  00 


Real  estate,  Watertown 

Stocks  and  Bonds. 

100  shares  Albany  Trust 

304  shares  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co., 

2  shares  Amherst  Gas  Co.,  . 

250  shares  Ballardvale  Mills  Co.,  preferred, 

2  shares  Boston  Ground  Rent  Trust, 
10  shares  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  Co.,  common 
7  shares  Boston  Personal  Property  Trust. 
4  shares  Central  Vermont  R.R.  Co., 
$5,000  Central  Vermont  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1920, 

3  shares  Edison  Electric  Illuminating  Co., 

2  shares  Fitchburg  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Co., 

3  shares  Fitchburg  R.R.  Co.,  preferred,    . 
400  shares  General  Electric  Co., 

4  shares  New  England  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co., 
3  shares  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R. 


$414,537  75 
524,141  01 


Co. 


2  shares  Walter  Baker  Co.,  Ltd.,       .        .        .        • 

304  shares  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  common,       . 

2  shares  Western  Real  Estate  Trust, 

6  shares  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,    . 

$15,000  American  Coal  Product  Co.,   6%   notes, 
July  1,  1916 ■ 

$65,000  American  Telephone  &  Telegraph  Co.,  col- 
lateral trust,  4s,  1929, 

$65,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1934, 

$50,000  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  Co.,  5s,  October 
1963,    

$20,000  Boston  &  Maine  R.R.  Co.,  4s,  1926,  . 

$15,000  Central  District  Telephone  Co.,  1st  mort- 
gage, 5s,  due  December  1943,         .        .        .        • 

$13,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.,  gen- 
eral mortgage,  4s,  1958, 

$23,000  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.R.  (Il- 
linois Division),  3|s,  1949 

$45,000  City  of  New  York,  6s,  1915, 


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41,943  80 
280  00 
25,000  00 
200  00 
525  00 
770  00 

4,400  00 

777  30 
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288  00 
58,672  49 
533  00 

236  62 

800  00 

25,872  00 

264  00 

378  00 

14,625  00 

57,850  00 
63,500  00 

52,864  25 
19,000  00 

15,000  00 

12,500  00 

20,000  00 
45,000  00 


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carHed  forward $470,515  46 


$938,678  76 


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Book  Value. 
Amounts  brought  forward $470,515  46      $938,678  76 

$10,000  Cleveland  Telephone  Co.,  5%  notes,  due 

May  15,  1916 9,950  00 

$25,000  Delaware  and  Hudson  Co.,  1st  refunding, 

4s,  1943 24,750  00 

$15,000  Detroit  Edison  Co.,  convertible  debenture, 

6s,  1925 16,387  50 

$9,000  Electrical  Securities  Corporation,  5s,  1939,  .  9,000  00 

$15,000  Fitchburg  R.R.,  4^s,  1928,  ....  15,000  00 
$30,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R., 

debenture,  4s,  1931 28,000  00 

$5,000  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  R.R.,  5% 

notes,  due  September  1915 5,000  00 

$75,000  Long  Island  R.R.,  refunding,  4s,  1949,  .  73,000  00 
$5,000  Louisville  &  Jeffersonville  Bridge  Co.,  4s, 

1945, 4,500  00 

$20,000  Massachusetts  Gas  Companies,  4|s,  1931,  19,163  05 
$20,000  New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.R. 

(Lake  Shore),  collateral  trust,  3^s,  1998,  .  .  18,000  00 
$60,000  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  R.R., 

4s,  1955 55,000  00 

$100,000  Northern  Pacific  &  Great  Northern  R.R. 

(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  joint  4s,  1921,  91,000  00 

$20,000  Peoria  &  Northwestern  R.R.,  3is,  1926,  .  18,000  00 
$15,000  Puget  Sound  Electric  Ry.,  1st  consolidated, 

5s,  1932 14,000  00 

$20,000  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Manitoba  R.R., 

4^3,  1933, 20,000  00 

$25,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  4s,  1932,     .        .  24,000  00 

$11,000  West  End  Street  Ry.  Co.,  5s,  1944,     .        .  11,343  75 

926,609  76 

Loans  receivable.  Institution 100,000  00 

Accounts  receivable 4,292  85 

Petty  cash  funds 150  00 

Cash:  — 

Treasurer, $24,804  35 

Director, 1,126  14 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee 175  83 

26,106  32 

Music  Department. 

Sixteen  pianofortes 3,880  00 

Miscellaneous. 
School  furniture  and  apparatus,  ....  $698  62 

Household  furniture, 15,157  93 

Provisions  and  supplies 1,000  00 

16,856  55 

$2,016,574  24 


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balances,  and  is  answerable  for  the  same:  — 


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS. 

General  funds  of  the  Kindergarten $560,526  58 

Mrs.  William  Appleton  fund, 13,000  00 

Nancy  Bartlett  fund, 50o  00 

Inmemoryof  William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr.,   .        .  1,000  00 

Miss  Helen  C.  Bradlee  fund 140,000  00 

Mrs.  M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  fund,        .        .  11,000  00 
Catherine  L.  Donnison  memorial  fund  (bequest  of 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Swan), 1,000  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Eliza  James  (Bell)  Draper,       .  1,500  00 

Mrs.  Helen  Atkins  Edmands  fund,    ....  5,000  00 

Mrs.  Eugenia  F.  Farnham  fund 1,015  00 

Miss  Sarah  M.  Fay  fund, 15,000  00 

Albert  Glover  fund, 1,000  00 

In  memoriam  A.  A.  C., 500  00 

Moses  Kimball  fund 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  fund, 9,000  00 

Mrs.  Emeline  Morse  Lane  fund,        ....  1,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Matthews  fund 15,000  00 

Miss  Jeannie  Warren  Paine  fund,       ....  1,000  00 

George  F.  Farkman  fund, 3,500  00 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Potter  fund 30,000  00 

John  M.  Rodocanachi  fund 2  250  00 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch  fund, 8,500  00 

Memorial  to  Frank  Davison  Rust,     ....  14,100  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  Taber  fund, 622  81 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund, 5,666  95 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales  fund, 10,000  00 

In  memory  of  Ralph  Watson 237  92 

Legacies:  — 

Emelie  Albee 5150  oo 

Lydia  A.  Allen, 748  33 

Michael  Anagnos, 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey, 500  00 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker 2,500  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Baker, 13,053  48 

Miss  Mary  D.  Balfour, 100  00 

Sidney  Bartlett, 10,000  00 

Thompson  Baxter 322  50 

Robert  C.  Billings 10,000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden, 4  575  qo 


$852,919  26 


Amounta  carried  forward, $55,049  36    $852,919  26 

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Mrs.  Sarah  Bradford jqq  qq 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168  391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 6*  130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown, 1000  00 

Miss  Harriet  Tilden  Browne 2  000  00 

John  W.  Carter .'        _'  '500  00 

Mrs.  Adeline  M.  Chapin, 400  OO 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5  000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  G.  Coburn, 9*980  10 

Charles  H.  Col  burn 1000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45'l38  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis '300  oO 

Miss  Sarah  Silver  Cox 5  000  00 

Miss  Susan  T.  Crosby, lOO  oO 

Miss  Caroline  T.  Downes, 12  950  00 

George  E.  Downes, 3  qoo  00 

Charles  H.  Draper, 23  934  13 

Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Dwight *        "  4^000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons, 1000  00 

Miss  Mary  Eveleth, I'ooo  00 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Farwell, '  '500  oO 

John  Foster, ]       [  5  000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Gay, 7  931  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Gifford '  5000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover 5  000  00 

Miss  Matilda  Goddard, '3O0  00 

Mrs.  Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Mrs.  Mary  L.  Greenleaf 5,157  75 

Mrs.  Josephine  S.  Hall 3*000  00 

Mrs.  Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Hodges, '3O0  oO 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden 2  360  67 

Mrs.  Marion  D.  Hollingsworth ijooo  00 

Frances  H.  Hood, 100  00 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Jones, 500  oO 

Mrs.  Maria  E.  Jones 935  95 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Lamber, 700  oO 

Charles  Larned, 5  000  00 

William  Litchfield, 5000  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke 5874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord 1  000  00 

Elisha  T.  Loring, 5^000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low, 1000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson g  134  00 

Miss  Sarah  L.  Marsh 1000  00 

Miss  Rebecca  S.  Melvin 23545  55 


Amounts  earned  forward $444,134  43      $852,919  26 

72 


Amounts  brought  forward, $444,134  43      $862,919  26 

Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton,          ....  10,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1,000  00 

Miss  Anna  R.  Palfrey, 50  00 

Miss  Helen  M.  Parsons 500  00 

Mrs.  Richard  Perkins 10,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Phipps 2,000  00 

Mrs.  Caroline  S.  Pickman 1,000  00 

Katherine  G.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Josephine  L.  Hyde  Pope 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  A.  Porter 50  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter 395,014  44 

Francis  S.  Pratt 100  00 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Jane  Roberts, 93,025  55 

Miss  Dorothy  Roffe, 500  00 

Miss  Rhoda  Rogers 500  00 

Miss  Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

William  A.  Rust 1.500  00 

Miss  Rebecca  Salisbury 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3.000  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Eliza  B.  Seymour 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  E.  Snow 9,903  27 

Adelaide  Standish, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  P.  Sturgis 21,729  52 

Abby    K.    Sweetser    fund    (bequest    of    Seth    K. 

Sweetser) 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser  fund 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer 2,000  00 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Taber 1,000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Mrs.  Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Delia  D.  Thorndike 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Mrs.  Betsy  B.  Tolman, 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner 24,082  00 

Miss  Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1,000  00 

George  W.  Wales, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware, 4,000  00 

Mrs.  Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,          .        .        .  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

The  May  Roseyear  White  fund 500  00 

Mary  Whitehead 666  00 


Amounts  carried  forward,     ....         $1,120,133  95     $852,919  26 


73 


Amounts  brought  forward,     ....        $1,120,133  95       $852,919  26 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Whitney, 100  00 

Miss  Betsey  S.  Wilder 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Miss  Mary  W.  Wiley 150  00 

Miss  Mary  Williams 5,000  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5,532  00 

1,131,922  75 

Mortgage  note  payable, 30,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 1,732  23 


},016,574  24 


Donations,  Kindergarten  Account. 


Brett,  Miss  Anna  K.,    . $10  00 

Draper,  Mrs.  George  A., 50  00 

Duncan,  Mrs.  Samuel  W., 3  00 

Gardner,  George  A 50  00 

Hill,  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,  by  C.  S.  Hill 1  00 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B., 100  00 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union 
Congregational     Church     of     Weymouth     and 

Braintree, 22  00 

$236  00 


74 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE  PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,   Mrs.   Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,568  00 

Donations, 1,673  00 

Cambridge  Branch, 225  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 87  00 

Lynn  Branch, 60  00 

Milton  Branch, 40  00 

$4,653  00 


75 


ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Adelaide  F., 

$5  00 

Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 

1  00 

Abbott,  Mrs.  J.,      . 

5  00 

Adams,  Mr.  George, 

1  00 

Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 

5  00 

Alford,  Mrs.  0.  H., 

10  00 

Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R.,  . 

3  00 

Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

5  00 

Alley,  Mrs.  George  R.,  . 

1  00 

Ames,  Miss  Mary  S., 

25  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 

25  00 

Amory,  Mrs.  William,    . 

5  00 

Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 

1  00 

Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 

2  00 

Anthony,  Mrs.  S.  Reed, 

2  00 

Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C, 

3  00 

Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 

1  00 

Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P.,    . 

5  00 

Badger,  Mrs.  Wallis  B., 

2  00 

Baer,  Mrs.  Louis,   . 

5  00 

Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 

2  00 

Baker,  Miss  S.  P.,  . 

5  00 

Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 

5  00 

Baldwin,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T., 

5  00 

Bangs,  Mrs.  Francis  R., 

10  00 

Bartol,  Miss  Elizabeth  H., 

10  00 

Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 

2  00 

Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 

10  00 

Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 

1  00 

Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G., 

2  00 

Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 

2  00 

Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 

5  00 

Blake,  Mr.  Wm.  P.,       . 

5  00 

Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 

2  00 

Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 

2  00 

Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 

5  00 

Boynton,  Miss  Ella  F., 

5  00 

Amount  brought  forward,   .    $195  00 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $195  00 


Bradford,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    . 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B., 
Brewer,  Mrs.  D.  C, 
Brown,  Miss  Augusta  M., 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Brown,  Mr.  C.  H.  C,    . 
Brush,  Mrs.  C.  N., 
Burr,  Mrs.  Allston, 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  S., 
Gary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapin,  Mrs.  H.  W.,      . 
Chapman,  Miss  E.  D.,  . 
Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E.  C. 
Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R.,  . 
Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C,   . 
Clark,    Mr.   B.    Preston,    in 
memory    of    his    mother, 
Mrs.  B.  C.  Clark,       . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 
Clark,  Mrs.  John  T.,      . 
Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Darius, 
Cockrane,  Mrs.  Alex.,    . 
Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory, 
Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Francis  L., 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph, 


10  00 

1  00 
3  00 

2  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

25  00 

3  00 
50  00 
10  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


5  00 
5  00 
10  00 
3  00 
5  00 

1  00 
5  00 

5  00 

2  00 
1  00 

25  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .   $433  00 


76 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $433  00 


Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F. 

2  GO 

Cox,  Mrs.  William  E.,   . 

.       10  00 

Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 

5  00 

Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 

5  00 

Crane,  Mr.  Zenas,  . 

.     100  00 

Crehore,  Mrs.  G.  C,      . 

6  00 

Crocker,  Miss  Sarah  H., 

5  00 

Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 

.       10  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P., 

.       50  00 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 

5  00 

Curtis,  Miss  M.  G., 

2  00 

Curtis,  Mr.  William  0., 

5  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W.,    . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W.,      . 

2  00 

Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 

5  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G., 

2  00 

Cutler,  Mrs.  George  C., 

5  00 

Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 

2  00 

Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 

1  00 

Dale,  Mrs.  Eben,    . 

5  00 

Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 

2  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 

10  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 

5  00 

Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 

3  00 

DeLong,  Mrs.  E.  R.  (for  1914) 

2  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 

5  00 

Denny,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

5  00 

Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket,      . 

5  00 

Drost,  Mr.  C.  A.,    . 

10  00 

DuBois,  Mrs.  L.  G.,       . 

5  00 

Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

1  00 

Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 

5  00 

Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 

10  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 

2  00 

Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards,   . 

10  00 

Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 

5  00 

Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 

1  00 

Elms,  Mrs.  James  C,    . 

2  00 

Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d,   . 

20  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 

5  00 

Endicott,  Mrs.  William  C,  . 

5  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 

2  00 

Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 

3  00 

Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 

5  00 

Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 

5  00 

Eustis,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 

5  00 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,      . 

10  00 

Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M.,   . 

10  00 

Ferrin,  Mrs.  M,  T.  B.,  . 

5  00 

Amount  carried  forward,     .  $824  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $824  00 


Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott, 
Forbes,  Mrs.  F.  B., 
Fottler,  Mrs.  Jacob, 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,     . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gay,  Mrs.  Albert,  . 
Giddings,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,      . 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,      . 
Gorham,  Mrs.  W.  H.,     . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H 
Grandin,  Mrs.  J.  L., 
Grant,  Mrs.  Robert, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,     . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F., 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  . 
Guild,  Miss  Harriet  J., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L. 
Hartwell,  Mrs.  A.  T.,    . 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W.,   . 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G.,   . 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,   Mrs.   F.   L.    (for 

1914) 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,    . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,      . 
Homans,  Mrs.  John, 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B., 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,     . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howe,  Mrs.  J.  S.,    . 
Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W.,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W. 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Hyde,  Mrs.  Thomas  W., 
Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,148  00 


5  00 

.       20  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       10  00 

.       25  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.       10  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       15  00 

1  00 

2  00 

.       10  00 

.       15  00 

1  00 

,       25  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

77 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,148  00 


Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 

3  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 

10  00 

Johnson,  Miss  Fannie  L., 

1  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 

10  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 

10  00 

Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 

10  00 

Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Kidner,  Mrs.  Reuben,    . 

1  00 

Kimball,  The  Misses,     . 

25  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 

25  00 

Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 

10  00 

Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 

50  00 

Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 

1  00 

Klous,  Mr.  Isaac,   . 

2  00 

Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 

1  00 

Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A., 

1  00 

Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 

5  00 

Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph,   . 

100  00 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Loring,  Judge  W.  C,     . 

25  00 

Ix)ring,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

25  00 

Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B.  (fo 

r 

1914-15),      . 

10  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K. 

50  00 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 

5  00 

Lovering,    Mrs.    Charles    T 

(for  1914-15).      . 

20  00 

Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S.,  . 

5  00 

Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 

5  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  George  G., 

10  00 

Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 

5  00 

Mack,  Mrs.  Thomas,     . 

10  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 

2  00 

Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M.,  . 

1  00 

Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 

3  00 

Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 

50  00 

Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

10  00 

Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 

5  00 

Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M., 

2  00 

Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 

10  00 

Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A., 

5  00 

Morey,  Mrs.  Edwin, 

5  00 

Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 

5  00 

Morse,  Mrs.  Henry  Lee, 

5  00 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  F., 

5  00 

Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,     . 

5  00 

Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 

5  00 

Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob, 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,718  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,718  GO 


Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H., 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis, 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Jr. 
Noyes,  Mrs.  G.  D., 
Ohnsted,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 
Paine,  Mrs.  Wm.  D., 
Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S 
Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 
Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R. 
Perry,  Mrs.  Clarabel  N 
Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 
Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L., 
Pope,  Mrs.  W.  C, 
Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr, 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 
Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M. 
Proctor,  Mrs.  H.  H.,      . 
Putnam,  Miss  Ellen  Day, 
Putnam,  Mrs.  George,  . 
Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 
Rand,  Mrs.  Arnold  A., 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 
Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A.,  . 
Raymond,  Mrs.  Henry  E., 
Reed,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Reed,  Mrs.  William  Howell 
Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 
Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B., 
Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 
Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 
Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,     . 
Richardson,  The  Misses, 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L. 
Robbins,  Mrs.  Royal,     . 
Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K., 
Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S.,  . 
Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  L.,     . 
Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,      . 
Russell,  Miss  Catherine  E., 
Russell,  Mrs.  Elliott, 
Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K., 
Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M., 
in  memory  of  his  mother, 
Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall, 


00 

00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

25  00 

2  00 
25  00 

3  00 
10  00 


00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

00 

2  00 

2  00 

25  00 

25  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

10  00 


00 
00 

00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
2  00 
4  00 


10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,001  00 


78 


Amount  brought  forward,    $2,001  00 


2  00 

10  00 

1  00 

10  00 
5  00 


5  00 
10  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 

6  00 
10  00 


Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 
Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,  . 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,  . 
Scammon,    The    Misses,    in 

memory  of  their  mother, 
Schouler,  Mr.  James, 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of  her  mother,  Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer,  . 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sears,  Mrs.  Frederic  R., 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Rowland, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S.,  . 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D.,  . 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P.,  . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Frederic,  . 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G., 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Sjrmonds,  Miss  Lucy  Harris 
Talbot,  Miss  Leslie, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  E.,  . 


Amount  carried  forward,     $2,297  00 


2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

25  00 

2  00 

5  00 

15  00 

3  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

12  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

10  00 

10  00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $2,297  00 


Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C,   . 
Thorndike,    Mrs.   Augustus 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus  L. 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tuckerman,  Mrs.  Charles  S. 
Tudor,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett, 
Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,      . 
Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A., 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee,  . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard,   . 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,      . 
Wead,  Mrs.  Leslie  C,    . 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor,  . 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 
White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman,    . 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Williams,  The  Misses,    . 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,     . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B.,  . 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest, 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Wright,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 
Young,  Miss  Lucy  F.,    . 


5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

10  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

3  00 

.   15  00 

10  00 

2  00 

$2,568  00 


79 


DONATIONS. 


A  friend,  .... 
Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,     . 
Bartlett,  The  Misses,     . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W.,   . 
Bass,  Mrs.  Emma  M.,   . 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R.,    . 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis, 
Bradford,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Bradley,  Mrs.  Leverett, 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon,    . 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James,  . 
BuUard,  Mrs.  Wm.  S.,  . 
Bullens,  Miss  Charlotte  L., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred, 
Carpenter,  Mrs.  G.  A., 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  S., 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,     . 
Cheney,  Mr.  Charles  W., 
Chesson,  Mr.  Harold,     . 
Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,  Mrs.  Robert  Farley, 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C,    . 
Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E.,    . 
Collamore,  Miss  Helen, 
Converse,  Mrs.  C.  C,    . 
Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E., 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Crane,  Mrs.  Z.  Marshal, 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R.,  . 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker,    . 
Davis,  Mrs.  Roscoe  C, 
Deland,  Mrs.  Lorin  F., 
Devlin,  Mr.  John  E.,     . 
Ely,  Mrs.  Alfred  B., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,     . 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 


$5  00 
3  00 
20  00 
10  00 
5  00 
10  00 
10  00 


5 
5 
3 
5 
5 
3 
1 
15  00 

1  00 

5  00 

6  00 
10  00 

2  00 

2  00 

3  00 
10  00 

5  00 

50  00 

25  00 

5  00 

100  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

10  00 

5  00 

50  00 

75  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

25  00 

5  00 

25  00 

1  00 

2  00 


A?nount  carried  forward,     .  $579  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $579  00 


F 

Farnsworth,  Mrs.  C.  F., 
Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B.,    . 
Fitzgerald,  Mrs.  Desmond, 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N.,  . 
French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 
French,  Mr.  Wilfred  A., 
Gibbs,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Joseph  T., 
Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R.,    . 
Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 
Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 
Griggs,  Mrs.  Thomas  B., 
Guild,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,      . 
Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 
Hill,  Mrs.  Lew  C, 
Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 
Houghton,  Miss  Elizabeth  G 
Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C,  . 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,     . 
Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 
Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,    . 
Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis,  . 
lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriet 
L.   Thayer,  through  Mrs 
Hannah  T.  Brown,     . 
In  memory  of  Mrs.  George 

H.  Eager,     . 
Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C, 
Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 
Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N., 
Lawrence,  Mrs.  John,    . 
Lins,  Mrs.  Ferdinand,    . 
Locke,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 
Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Magee,  Mr.  John  L., 
Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,      . 
Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,    . 
Marsh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M., 
Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 
Means,  Mrs.  W.  A., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $907  00 


20  00 

2  00 
10  00 

5  00 
10  00 
10  00 

5  00 

1  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 
5  00 

3  00 

2  00 
10  00 

2  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 
5  00 

10  00 

20  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 


5  00 


.   10 

00 

25 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

15 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

80 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $907  00 


Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank,   . 
Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T.,  . 
Miner,  Mrs.  George  A., 
Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Moore,  Mrs.  Henry  F., 
Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,     . 
Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 
Morrill,  Miss  Fanny  E., 
Nichols,  Mr.  Seth, 
Otis,  Mrs.  H.  F.,     . 
Peabody,  Mr.  Harold,    . 
Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,      . 
Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,     . 
Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 
Pratt,  Mr.  Robert  M.,  . 
Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,     . 
Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H., 
Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher,  . 
Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W.,  . 
Richardson,  The  Misses,  in 

memory  of  M.  A.  E.  and 

C.  P.  P.,       , 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick, 
Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 
Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E.,   . 
Ripley,  Mr.  Frederic  H., 
Rodman,  Miss  Emma,  . 
Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 
Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  F., 
Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,    . 
Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 
S.,  Mrs 


10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

25  00 

20  00 

20  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


5 

3 

5 

2 

5 

3 

10  00 
100  00 

5  00 
10  00 

5  00 

5  00 


2  00 
25  00 

5  00 
5  00 

3  00 
20  00 


50  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1 ,290  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    $1,290  00 


Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,    . 
Saunders,  Mrs.  D.  E.,    . 
Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 
Sever,  Miss  Emily, 
Sherburne,  Mrs.  F.  S.,  . 
Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 
Silsbee,  Mrs.  G.  S., 
Slattery,  Mrs.  William, 
Snelling,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 
Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P., 
Sprague,  Miss  Mary  C, 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Swift,  Mrs.  E.  C,  . 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Riples^, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  William  G., 
Tolman,  Mr.  James  P., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  J.  Alfred, 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A.,  . 
Warner,  Mrs.  F.  H., 
Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W., 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,      . 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P.,  . 
Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C,      . 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary  C. 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitman,  Mr.  James  H., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,     . 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T.,  . 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Robert,     . 
Ziegel,  Mr.  Louis,  . 


5  00 

1 

00 

.   25  00 

.   20 

00 

5  00 

5  00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

10  00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

.   20 

00 

5 

00 

10  00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

10  00 

10 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   25  00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

,   10 

00 

10 

00 

20  00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

.   25 

00 

5 

00 

50 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

$1,673 


Aldrich,  Mrs.  Charles  F.  (for 

1914), $1  00 

Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (do- 
nation),        .        .        .        .       10  00 

Batchelder,  Miss  Isabel, 

Brewster,  Mrs.  William, 

Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 

Cary,  Miss  Emma  F.,    . 


CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 

Amount  brought  forward, 


1 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$27  00 


Amount  carried  forward, 


$27  00 


Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C, 

1  00 

Deane,  Mrs.  Walter, 

2  00 

Durant,  Mrs.  W.  B.,   . 

1  00 

Ela,  Mrs.  Walter,  . 

5  00 

Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 

3  00 

(donation),  . 

2  00 

$41  00 


81 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $41  00 


Farlow,   Mrs.  Wm.  G.   (do 

nation), 
Folsom,  Mrs.  Norton,    . 
Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C, 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 
Glover,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  J.  W.,    . 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss   Catharine    I 

(donation),  . 
Kennedy,  Mrs.  F.  L.,     . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P., 
Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 


Amount  carried  forward,     .  $153  GO 


5  00 

2  00 

50  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    ,  $153  00 


Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin,   . 
Richards,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Coolidge  S., 
Saville,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M., 
Sedgwick,    Miss    M.    Theo- 
dora,     .... 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
White,  Mrs.  Moses  P.,  . 
Williston,  Mrs.  L.  R.  (dona 

tion),     .... 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Winlock,  Mrs.  J.,    . 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

15 

00 

2 

00 

$225  00 


DORCHESTER  BRANCH. 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 
Bennett,  Miss  M.  M.,  . 
Brigham,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  (do 

nation), 
Burditt,  Mrs.  Charles  A. , 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S. 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,     . 

(donation),  . 
Copeland,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  . 
Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Christopher  R., 
Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry,  . 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A.,  . 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K.,    . 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C,     . 
Pierce,  Miss  Henrietta, 
Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$1 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

$32  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $32  00 


Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do- 
nation), 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Sayward,  Mrs.  W.  H.,   . 
Sharp,  Mr.  Everett  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr,  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of,  . 
Stearns,  Miss  Katherine, 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Frederic  P., 
Torrey,   Mrs.   Elbridge   (do 

nation). 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S.,  . 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,  . 
Wood,  Mrs.  William  A., 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


2  00 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


1  00 
1  00 

4  00 

25  00 
1  00 

1  00 

2  00 
1  00 

5  00 


$87  00 


82 


LYNN  BRANCH. 


Averill,   Miss  M.   J.   (dona- 

tion)  

$2  00 

Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  K 

(donation),  . 

10  00 

Caldwell,  Mrs.  EUen  F,, 

1  00 

Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A.,  . 

5  00 

Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,     . 

1  00 

Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 

5  00 

Harmon,  Mrs.  Rollin  E., 

2  00 

Haven,     Miss    Rebecca    E 

(donation),  . 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,  $28  00 


Amount  brought  forward,    .     $28  00 


Hollis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J.  (do- 
nation). 
Page,  Miss  Elizabeth  D., 
Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Sprague,  Mr.  Henry  B.  (do- 
nation), 
Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.   (do 
nation), 


10 

00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

$60  00 


MILTON  BRANCH. 


Clark,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes  (dona- 
tion)  

Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Jaques,  Mrs.  Francis,     . 
Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$2  00 

2 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

$30  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .     $30  00 


Morse,  Mrs.  Samuel  A.  (do- 

nation). 

1  00 

Pierce,  Mr.  Vassar, 

5  00 

Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R., 

1  00 

Tucker,  Mrs.  Stephen  A., 

1  00 

(donation),  . 

2  00 

$40  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruke  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  William  Endicott,  Treasurer,  No. 
115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen, 
Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 

WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 
No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 


83 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  ($  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 

follows : 

Mr.  WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 

No.   115  Devonshire  Street, 

Boston,  riass. 


Perkins  Institution 

And  Massachusetts  School 
For  the  Blind 


EIOHTY-PIFTH  ANNUAL  REPORT 
OP  THE  TRUSTEES 


1916 


BOSTON     Jt     ^     ^     ^     ,^1917 
WRIGHT  &  POTTER  PRINTING  CO. 


Q^ilt  OlmmtmrntiraUl;  af  MnBButlpxmttB. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  21,  1916. 

To  the  Hon.  Albert  P.  Langtry,  Secretary  of  State,  Boston. 

Dear  Sir:  —  I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you,  for  the 
use  of  the  legislature,  a  copy  of  the  eighty-fifth  annual 
report  of  the  trustees  of  this  institution  to  the  corporation 
thereof,  together  with  that  of  the  treasurer  and  the  usual 
accompanying  documents. 

Respectfully, 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 

1916-1917. 


FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON,  President. 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS,  Vice-President. 
WILLIAM  ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 
EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Secretary. 


BOARD   OF  TRUSTEES. 


Mrs.  GEORGE  ANGIER. 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON. 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES. 
THOMAS   B.  FITZPATRICK. 
Rev.  PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM. 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL. 


JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL. 
GEORGE   H.  RICHARDS. 
WILLIAM   L.  RICHARDSON,  M.D. 
Miss  ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS. 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL. 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE. 


STANDING   COMMITTEES. 
Monthly  Visiting  Committee, 

whose  duty  it  is  to  visit  and  inspect  the  Institution  at  least  once  in  each  month. 


January, 

February, 

March,  . 

April, 

May, 

June, 


1917. 

Francis  Henry  Appleton. 
Mrs.  Geobqe  Angier. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Paul  R.  Frothingham. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick. 


July,       . 

August,  . 

September, 

October, 

November, 

December, 


1917. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
Annette  P.  Rogers. 
George  H.  Richards. 
William  L.  Richardson. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 
Albert  Thorndikh. 


Committee  on  Education. 

George  H.  Richards. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham. 

William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 


House  Committee. 
William  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Mrs.  George  Angier. 
George  H.  Richards. 


Committee  on  Finance. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
George  H.  Richards. 
James  A.  Lowell. 
Albert  Thorndike. 


Committee  on  Health. 

Walter  Cabot  Baylies. 
Wiluam  L.  Richardson,  M.D. 
Richard  M.  Saltonstall. 


Auditors  of  Accounts. 
Robert  H.  Hallowell. 
Albert  Thorndike. 


OFFICERS  OF  ADMINISTRATION  AND 
TEACHERS. 


EDWARD  E.  ALLEN,  Director. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS  OF  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 
LITERARY  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 

HAROLD   MOLTER. 

Miss  CAROLINE  E.  McMASTER. 

Miss  JULIA  A.  BOYLAN. 

Miss  JESSICA  L.   LANGWORTHY. 

ARTHUR  E.  HOLMES. 

Miss  FEODORE   M.  NICHOLLS. 

Miss  ETHEL  D.  EVANS. 


Oirls'  Section. 

Miss  ELLEN   H.  PACKARD. 
Mrs.  VERA   N.  LOCKE. 
Miss  GENEVIEVE   M.  HAVEN. 
Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 
Miss  ABBIE   G.  POTTLE. 
Miss  JULIA  E.  BURNHAM. 
Miss  ELSIE   H.  SIMONDS. 


Teacher  of  Housework. 

Miss  RUTH  DAVIES. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  PHYSICAL  TRAINING. 

LEWIS  M.  DILLINGHAM.  |    Miss  INEZ  J.  SWENSON. 

Miss  LENNA  D.  SWINERTON. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  MUSIC. 

EDWIN   L.  GARDINER. 


Miss  FREDA  A.  BLACK. 
Miss  HELEN   M.  ABBOTT. 
Miss  MARY  E.  BURBECK. 
JOHN   F.  HARTWELL. 


Miss  MARY  E.  RILEY. 
Miss  JANE   M.  BACON. 
Miss  BLANCHE   A.  BARDIN. 
Miss  MABEL  A.  STARBIRD,  Voice. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  MANUAL  TRAINING. 


Boys'  Section. 
JULIAN   H.  MABEY. 
ELWYN   C.  SMITH. 
Miss  MARY  B.  KNOWLTON,  Sloyd. 


Girls'  Section. 

Miss  FRANCES   M.  LANGWORTHY. 
Miss  M.  ELIZABETH   ROBBINS. 
Miss  MARIAN  E.  CHAMBERLAIN. 
Miss  BEATRICE  M.  GLEASON. 


DEPARTMENT   OP  TUNING  PIANOFORTES. 

ELWYN   H.  FOWLER,  Manager  and  Instructor. 


LIBRARIANS,   CLERKS  AND   BOOKKEEPERS. 


Miss  LAURA   M.  SAVSTER,  Librarian. 
Miss  LOUISE   P.  HUNT,  Assistant. 
Miss  ANNA  GARDNER  FISH,  Clerk. 


Miss  DOROTHY  A.  TITUS,  Assistant. 
Miss  MAI   L.   LELAND,  Bookkeeper. 
Miss  "WINIFRED  F.  LELAND,  Assistant. 


Mbs.  SARAH   A.  STOVER,   Treasurer  for  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society. 


DEPARTMENT   OF  HEALTH. 

OSCAR  S.  CREELEY,  M.D.,  Attending  Physician. 

HENRY   HAWKINS,  M.D.,  Ophthalmologist. 

HAROLD   B.  CHANDLER,  M.D.,  Assistant  Ophthalmologist. 

ARTHUR   WILLARD   FAIRBANKS,  M.D..  Pediatrician. 

HOWARD   ARTHUR   LANE,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Institution. 

REINHOLD   RUELBERG,  D.M.D.,  Attending  Dentist  for  the  Kindergarten. 


DOMESTIC  DEPARTMENT. 

FREDERICK  A.  FLANDERS,  Steward. 


Matrons  in  the  Cottages. 


Boys'  Section. 


Miss  CLARISSA  A.  DAWSON. 
Mrs.  FRANCES  E.  CARLTON. 
Miss  FLORA  C.  FOUNTAIN. 
Miss  N.  GRACE  BENTLEY. 


Oirls'  Section. 


Mbs.  ISABELLA  P.  HEARD. 
Mrs.  CORA  L.  GLEASON. 
Mrs.  S.  ELIZABETH  SCHOULER. 
Miss  FLORENCE  E.  STOWE. 


PRINTING  DEPARTMENT. 

FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Mrs.  MARTHA  A.  TITUS,  Printer.  \  Miss  MARY  L.  TULLY,  Printer. 


WORKSHOP  FOR  ADULTS. 

EUGENE   C.  HOWARD,  Manager  Emeritus. 
FRANK   C.  BRYAN,  Manager. 
Miss  EVA  C.  ROBBINS,  Clerk. 


TEACHERS  AND  OFFICERS  AT  THE  LOWER  SCHOOL. 


KINDERGARTEN. 


Boys'  Section. 


Oirls'  Section. 


Mrs.  J.  M.  Hill,  Matron. 
Miss  Cornelia  M.  Lobing,  Assistant. 
Miss  W.  R.  Humbert,  Kindergartner. 
Miss  Alice  M.  Lang,  Teacher. 


Miss  Nettie  B.  Vose,  Matron. 

Miss  LiLLA  M.  Blois,  Assistant. 

Miss  Elba  M.  Hackebaeth,  Kindergartner, 

Miss  L.  Henrietta  Stratton,  Teacher. 

Miss  Henrietta  Damon,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Annie  L.  F.  Edwards,  Teacher  of  Manual  Training. 

Miss  Lenna  D.  Swinerton,  Assistant  in  Corrective  Gymnastics. 

Miss  Edith  M.  Taylor,  Psychologist. 


PRIMARY  DEPARTMENT. 


Boys'  Section. 


Miss  Mabgahet  F.  Hughes,  Matron. 
Miss  Jane  J.  Walsh,  Assistant. 
Miss  Mart  M.  Hallett,  Teacher. 


Miss  Effib  C.  Saunders,  Teacher. 

Miss  Minnie  C.  Tucker,  Music  Teacher. 

Miss  Rosalind  L.  Houghton,  Sloyd. 


Miss  Ada  S.  Bartlett,  Matron. 
Miss  S.  M.  Chandler,  Assistant. 
Miss  Bertha  M.  Buck,  Teacher. 


Girls'  Section. 


Miss  Lizzie  R.  Kinsman,  Teacher. 
Miss  Naomi  K.  Grino,  Music  Teacher. 
Miss  Gerda  L.  Wahlberg,  Sloyd. 


LADIES'  VISITING   COMMITTEE  TO  THE  KINDERGARTEN. 

Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  President. 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren,  Vice-President, 
Mrs.  Wm.  R.  Livermore,  Secretary. 


?  January. 

February. 
}  March. 

April. 


Mrs.  Louis  Bacon, 
Mrs.  John  Lawrence, 
Mrs.  Harold  J.  Coolidge, 
Mrs.  T.  H.  Cabot,      .      . 
Mrs.  Wm.  R.  Livermore, 
Mrs.  John  B.  Thomas,     . 
Miss  Ellen  Bullard, 
Miss  Annie  C.  Warren, 

Miss  Elizabeth  G.  Norton. 

Mrs.  Larz  Anderson. 

Mrs.  Maud  Howe  Elliott,  Honorary  Membe. 

Mrs.  KiNQSMiLL  Marbs,  Honorary  Member. 


Mrs.  Ronald  Lyman, 
Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray, 
Miss  Eleanor  S.  Parker, 
Mrs.  George  H.  Monks, 
Mrs.  Roger  B.  Merriman, 
Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley, 
Miss  Alice  Sargent,  . 


.     June. 

.     September. 

.     October. 

I  November. 
{December. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 


Abbot,  Mrs.  M.  T.,  Cambridge. 
Adams,  Melvin  0.,  Boston. 
Ahl,  Mrs.  Daniel,  Boston. 
Allen,  Edward  E.,  Watertown. 
Allen,  Mrs.  Edward  E.,  Water- 
town. 
Angier,  Mrs.  George,  Newton. 
Appleton,   Hon.   Francis  Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,   Mrs.   Francis   Henry, 

Peabody. 
Appleton,    Francis    Henry,    Jr., 

Boston. 
Appleton,   Mrs.   Francis   Henry, 

Jr.,  Boston. 
Appleton,  Dr.  William,  Boston. 
Bacon,  Gaspar  G.,  Jamaica  Plain. 
Baker,  Mrs.  Ezra  H.,  Boston. 
Baldwin,    S.    E.,    New    Haven, 

Conn. 
Ballantine,  Arthur  A.,  Boston. 
Bancroft,      Miss     Eleanor     C, 

Beverly. 
Bancroft,  Robert  H.,  Beverly. 
Barbom-,  Edmimd  D.,  Boston. 
Bartlett,  Miss  Mary  F.,  Boston. 
Bates,  Arlo,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  C,  Boston. 
Beach,  Rev.  D.  N.,  Bangor,  Me. 
Beebe,  E.  Pierson,  Boston. 
Benedict,    Wm.    Leonard,    New 

York. 
Black,  George  N.,  Boston. 


Blake,  Miss  Marian  L.,  Man- 
chester, N.  H. 

Blimt,  Col.  S.  E.,  Springfield. 

Boardman,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  Boston. 

Bourn,  Hon.  A.  O.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Bowditch,  Alfred,  Boston. 

Bowditch,  IngersoU,  Boston. 

Boyden,  Mrs.  Charles,  Boston. 

Bremer,  S.  Parker,  Boston. 

Brigham,  Charles,  Watertown. 

Brooke,  Rev.  S.  W.,  London. 

Brooks,  Gorham,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Peter  C,  Boston. 

Brooks,  Shepherd,  Boston. 

Browne,  A.  Parker,  Boston. 

Bryant,  Mrs.  A.  B.  M.,  Boston. 

Bullock,  Col.  A.  G.,  Worcester. 

Bumham,  Miss  Julia  E.,  Lowell. 

Bumham,  William  A.,  Boston. 

Burr,  I.  Tucker,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Cabot,  Mrs.  Samuel,  Boston. 

Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W.,  Newton. 

Callahan,  Miss  Mary  G.,  Boston. 

Callender,  Walter,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Camp,  Rev.  Edward  C,  Water- 
town. 

Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W.,  West  Newton. 

Gary,  Miss  E.  F.,  Cambridge. 

Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,  Boston. 

Case,  Mrs.  Laura  L.,  Boston. 

Chace,  Hon.  J.,  VaUey  Falls,  R.  I. 
Chace,  J.  H.,  VaUey  FaUs,  R.  I. 


Chapin,  Edward  P.,  Andover. 

Chapin,  Harry  G.,  Springfield. 

Clement,  Edward  H.,  Boston. 

Cochrane,  Alexander,  Boston. 

Colby,  Miss  Jennie  M.,  Boston. 

Colt,  Samuel  P.,  Bristol,  R.  I. 

Cook,  Charles  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cook,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Coolidge,  Francis  L.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  J.  Randolph,  Boston. 

Coohdge,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  Boston. 

Coolidge,  T.  Jefferson,  Boston. 

Cotting,  Charles  E.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Crane,  Mrs.  Zenas  M.,  Dalton. 

Crosby,  Sunmer,  Brookline. 

Crosby,  William  S.,  Brookline. 

Crowninshield,  Francis  B.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Cunningham,  Mrs.  Henry  V., 
Grove  Hall. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Charles  P.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Greeley  S.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  Horatio  G,,  Boston, 

Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G.,  Boston. 

Curtis,  James  F.,  Boston. 

Gushing,  Livingston,  Boston. 

Cutler,  George  C,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Dabney,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Dalton,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Charles  S.,  Boston. 

Davis,  Livingston,  Milton. 

Day,  Mrs.  Frank  A.,  Newton. 

Dewey,  Francis  H.,  Worcester. 

De  Witt,  Alexander,  Worcester. 

Dexter,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  Boston. 

Dexter,  Miss  Rose  L.,  Boston. 

Dillaway,  W.  E.  L.,  Boston. 

Dimick,  Orlando  W.,  Watertown. 

Dolan,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Draper,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Drew,  Edward  B.,  Cambridge. 

Duryea,  Mrs.  Herman,  New  York. 

Eaton,  Thomas  B.,  Worcester. 


Eliot,  Rev.  C.  R.,  Boston. 

Elliott,  Mrs.  Maud  Howe,  Boston. 

Ellis,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Ely,  Adolph  C,  Watertown. 

Endicott,  Henry,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William,  Boston. 

Endicott,  William  C,  Boston. 

Ernst,  C.  W.,  Boston. 

Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower,  Boston. 

Everett,  Dr.  Oliver  H.,  Worces- 
ter. 

Fanning,  David  H.,  Worcester, 

Faulkner,  Miss  F.  M.,  Boston, 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B,,  Boston, 

Fay,  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Mrs.  Henry  H.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  Sarah  B.,  Boston. 

Fay,  Miss  S.  M,,  Boston. 

Fay,  Wm.  Rodman,  Dover,  N.  H, 

Fenno,  Mrs.  L.  C,  Boston, 

Fisher,  Miss  Annie  E.,  Boston, 

Fiske,  Mrs,  Joseph  N,,  Boston. 

Fiske,  Mrs.  Mary  Dimcan,  Bos- 
ton. 

Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,  Boston. 

Fitzpatrick,  Thomas  B.,  Brook- 
line. 

Ford,  Lawrence  A.,  Boston. 

Foster,  Mrs,  E,  W,,  Hartford, 
Conn, 

Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Freeman,  Miss  H.  E,,  Boston, 

Frothingham,  Rev.  P,  R.,  Boston. 

Fuller,  George  F,,  Worcester, 

Fuller,  Mrs.  Samuel  R.,  Boston. 

Gale,  Lyman  W.,  Boston. 

Gammans,  Hon,  G.  H.,  Boston. 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Boston, 

Gardiner,  Robert  H.,  Jr.,  Need- 
ham, 

Gardner,  George  P.,  Boston, 

Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L.,  Boston. 


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Gaskins,  Frederick  A.,  Milton. 

George,  Charles  H.,  Providence, 
R.  I. 

Gleason,  Sidney,  Medford. 

Glidden,  W.  T.,  Brookline. 

Goff,  Darius  L.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goff,  Lyman  B.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

Goldthwait,  Mrs.  John,  Boston. 

Gooding,  Rev.  A.,  Portsmouth, 
N.  H. 

Gordon,  Rev.  G.  A.,  D.D.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Gray,  Roland,  Boston. 

Green,  Charles  G.,  Cambridge. 

Gregg,  Richard  B.,  Boston. 

Grew,  Edward  W.,  Boston. 

Griffin,  S.  B.,  Springfield. 

Griswold,  Merrill,  Cambridge. 

Hall,  Mrs.  Florence  Howe,  New 
York. 

Hall,  Miss  Minna  B.,  Longwood. 

Hallowell,  John  W.,  Boston. 

Hammond,  Mrs.  G.  G.,  Boston. 

Hanscom,  Dr.  Sanford,  Somer- 
ville. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Auburndale. 

Hearst,  Mrs.  Phebe  A.,  Cali- 
fornia. 

Hemenway,  Mrs.  Augustus,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hersey,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Frederick,  Brookline. 

Higginson,  F.  L.,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Hill,  Arthur  D.,  Boston. 

Hill,  Dr.  A.  S.,  SomerviUe. 

Hogg,  John,  Boston. 

HoUis,  Mrs.  S.  J,,  Lynn. 

Holmes,  Charles  W.,  Boston. 

Homans,  Robert,  Boston. 

Howe,  Henry  Marion,  New  York. 


Howe,  Henry  S.,  Brookline. 

Howe,  James  G.,  Milton. 

Howes,  Miss  Edith  M.,  Brookline. 

Howland,  Mrs.  0.  0.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Francis  W.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Mrs.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Hunnewell,  Walter,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  Boston. 

lasigi,  Miss  Mary  V.,  Boston. 

Ingraham,  Mrs.  E.  T.,  Wellesley. 

Isdahl,  Mrs.  C.  B.,  California. 

Jackson,  Charles  C,  Boston. 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  Cambridge. 

James,  Mrs.  C.  D.,  Brookline. 

Jenks,  Miss  C.  E.,  Bedford. 

Johnson,  Edward  C,  Boston. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.  S.,  Boston. 

Jones,  Mrs,  E.  C,  New  Bedford. 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Kasson,  Rev.  F.  H.,  Boston. 

Kellogg,  Mrs.  Eva  D.,  Boston. 

Kendall,  Miss  H.  W.,  Boston. 

Kent,  Mrs.  Helena  M.,  Boston. 

Kidder,  Mrs.  Hemy  P.,  Boston. 

Elilmer,  Frederick  M.,  Somer- 
viUe. 

Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P.,  Boston. 

Kimball,  Edward  P.,  Maiden. 

King,  Mrs.  Tarrant  Putnam,  Mil- 
ton. 

Kinnicutt,  Lincoln  N.,  Worcester. 

Knapp,  George  B.,  Boston. 

Knowlton,  Daniel  S.,  Boston. 

Kramer,  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Lamb,  Mrs.  Annie  L.,  Boston. 

Lang,  Mrs.  B.  J.,  Boston. 

Latimer,  Mrs.  Grace  G.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  James,  Groton. 

Lawrence,  John  Silsbee,  Boston. 

Lawrence,  Rt.  Rev.  Wm.,  Boston. 

Leverett,  George  V.,  Boston. 

Ley,  Harold  A.,  Springfield. 


Lincoln,  L.  J.  B,,  Hingham. 

Lincoln,  Waldo,  Worcester. 

Linzee,  J.  T.,  Boston. 

Livermore,  Thomas  L.,  Boston. 

Lodge,  Hon.  Henry  C,  Boston. 

Logan,  Hon.  James,  Worcester. 

Longfellow,  Miss  Alice  M.,  Cam- 
bridge, 

Lord,  Rev.  A.  M.,  Providence, 
R.  L 

Loring,  Miss  Katharine  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.,  Prides 
Crossing. 

Loring,  Mrs.  W.  Caleb,  Boston. 

Lothrop,  John,  Auburndale. 

Lothrop,  Mrs.  T.  K.,  Boston. 

Loud,  Charles  E.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Mrs.  C.  T.,  Boston. 

Lovering,  Richard  S.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Abbott  Lawrence,  Boston. 

Lowell,  Miss  Amy,  Brookline. 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina,  Boston. 

Lowell,  James  A.,  Boston. 

Lowell,  John,  Chestnut  Hill. 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Luce,  Hon.  Robert,  Waltham. 

Marrett,  Miss  H.  M.,  Standish, 
Me. 

Marrs,  Mrs.  Kingsmill,  Boston. 

Mason,  Charles  F.,  Watertown. 

Mason,  Miss  Ellen  F.,  Boston. 

Mason,  Miss  Ida  M.,  Boston. 

Merriman,  Mrs.  D.,  Boston. 

Merritt,  Edward  P.,  Boston. 

Meyer,  Mrs.  G.  von  L.,  Boston. 

Minot,  the  Misses,  Boston. 

Minot,  J.  Grafton,  Boston. 

Minot,  William,  Boston. 

Monks,  Mrs.  George  H.,  Boston. 

Morgan,  Eustis  P.,  Saco,  Me. 

Morgan,  Mrs.  Eustis  P.,  Saco, 
Me. 


Morison,  Mrs.  John  H.,  Boston. 

Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  Boston. 

Morse,  Miss  Margaret  P.,  Jamaica 
Plam. 

Moseley,  Charles  H.,  Boston. 

Motley,  Mrs.  E.  Preble,  Boston. 

Motley,  Warren,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Grenville  H.,  Boston. 

Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,  Boston. 

Oliver,  Dr.  Henry  K.,  Boston. 

Osgood,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  Hopedale. 

Osgood,  Miss  Fanny  D.,  Hope- 
dale. 

Parker,  W.  Prentiss,  Boston. 

Parker,  W.  Stanley,  Boston. 

Parkinson,  John,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Rev.  Endicott,  Groton. 

Peabody,  Frederick  W.,  Boston. 

Peabody,  Harold,  Boston. 

Peabody,  W.  Rodman,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Charles  Bruen,  Boston. 

Perkins,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  Boston. 

Phillips,  Mrs.  John  C,  Boston. 

Pickering,  Henry  G.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  Boston. 

Pierce,  Mrs.  M.  V.,  Milton. 

Pope,  Mrs.  A.  A.,  Boston. 

Powers,  Mrs.  H.  H.,  Newton. 

Pratt,  George  Dwaght,  Spring- 
field. 

Prendergast,  J.  M.,  Boston. 

Proctor,  James  H.,  Boston. 

Putnam,  F.  Delano,  Boston. 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J.,  Boston. 

Quimby,  Mrs.  A.  K.,  Boston. 

Rand,  Arnold  A.,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Neal,  Boston. 

Rantoul,  Robert  S.,  Salem. 

Reed,  Mrs.  Wm.  Howell,  Boston. 

Remick,  Frank  W.,  West  Newton. 

Rice,  John  C,  Boston. 

Rice,  M.  Eugene,  South  Sudbury. 


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Richards,  Miss  Elise,  Boston. 

Richards,  George  H.,  Boston. 

Richards,  Mrs.  H.,  Gardiner,  Me. 

Richards,  Henry  H.,  Groton. 

Richardson,  John,  Boston. 

Richardson,  John,  Jr.,  Readville. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John,  Jr.,  Read- 
ville. 

Richardson,  Miss  M.  G.,  New 
York. 

Richardson,  Mrs.  M.  R.,  Boston. 

Richardson,  W.  L.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Roberts,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  Allston. 

Robie,  Frederic  H.,  Watertown. 

Robinson,  George  F.,  Watertown. 

Rogers,  Miss  A.  P.,  Boston. 

Rogers,  Miss  Flora  E.,  New  York. 

Rogers,  Henry  M.,  Boston. 

Ropes,  Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  Boston. 

Rowan,  Alfred  J.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Miss  Marian,  Boston. 

Russell,  Otis  T.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  Robert  S.,  Boston. 

Russell,  Mrs.  W.  A.,  Mattapan. 

Russell,  Wm.  Eustis,  Boston. 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,  Brookline. 

Saltonstall,  Leverett,  Westwood. 

Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Leverett,  West- 
wood. 

Saltonstall,  Miss  Nora,  Chestnut 
HUl. 

Saltonstall,  Richard  M.,  Boston. 

Sanborn,  Frank  B.,  Concord. 

Schaff,  Capt.  Morris,  Cambridge. 

Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W.,  Boston. 

Sears,  Willard  T.,  Boston. 

Shattuck,  Henry  Lee,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Bartlett  M.,  Watertown. 

Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howland,  Boston. 

Shaw,  Henry  S.,  Boston. 

Shepard,  Harvey  N.,  Boston. 

Slater,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  Boston. 

Snow,  Walter  B.,  Watertown. 


Sohier,  Miss  Emily  L.,  Boston. 

Sohier,  Miss  M.  D.,  Boston. 

Sorchan,  Mrs.  Victor,  New  York. 

Sprague,  F.  P.,  M.D.,  Boston. 

Stanwood,  Edward,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Charles  H.,  Brookline. 

Stearns,  Mrs.  Charles  H.,  Brook- 
line. 

Stearns,  Wm.  B.,  Boston. 

Stevens,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. 

Sturgis,  Francis  S.,  Boston. 

Sturgis,  R.  CUpston,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Miss  Adele  G.,  Boston. 

Thayer,  Rev.  G.  A.,  Cincinnati,  0. 

Thayer,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Albert,  Boston. 

Thorndike,  Miss  Rosanna  D., 
Boston. 

Tifft,  Eliphalet  T.,  Springfield. 

Tilden,  Miss  Alice  Foster,  Mil- 
ton. 

Tilden,  Miss  Edith  S.,  Milton. 

Tingley,  S.  H.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Tuckerman,  Mrs.  C.  S.,  Boston, 

Tufts,  John  F.,  Watertown. 

Underwood,  Herbert  S.,  Boston. 

Underwood,  Wm.  Lyman,  Bel- 
mont. 

Villard,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  York. 

Ward,  Mrs.  May  Alden,  Boston. 

Ware,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Boston. 

Warren,  Miss  Ellen  W.,  Boston. 

Warren,  J.  G.,  Providence,  R.  I. 

Washburn,  Hon.  Charles  G., 
Worcester. 

Washburn,  Mrs.  Frederick  A., 
Boston. 

Waters,  H.  Goodman,  Springfield. 

Watson,  Thomas  A.,  Boston. 

Watson,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Boston. 

Wendell,  William  G.,  Boston. 

Wesson,  J.  L.,  Boston. 

West,  George  S.,  Boston. 


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Wheelock,  Miss  Lucy,  Boston. 

Wlieelwright,  Mrs.  Andrew  C, 
Boston. 

White,  C.  J.,  Cambridge. 

White,  George  A.,  Boston. 

Whitney,  Henry  M.,  Brookline. 

Wiggins,  Charles,  2d,  Cambridge. 

Williams,  Mrs.  H.  C,  Framing- 
ham. 

Winsor,  Mrs.  E.,  Chestnut  Hill. 


Winsor,  James  B.,  Providence, 
R.I. 

Winsor,  Robert,  Jr.,  Boston. 

Winthrop,  Mrs.  Thomas  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Wolcott,  Roger,  Boston. 

Wright,  George  S.,  Watertown. 

Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L.,  Bos- 
ton. 

Young,  B.  Loring,  Weston. 


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SYNOPSIS  OF  THE  PROCEEDINGS 

OF   THE 

ANNUAL  MEETING  OF  THE  COEPOEATION. 


Watertown,  October  11,  1916. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  corporation,  duly  summoned, 
was  held  to-day  at  the  institution,  and  was  called  to  order  by 
the  president,  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton,  at  3  p.m. 

The  proceedings  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  annual  report  of  the  trustees  was  accepted  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed,  together  with  the  usual  accompanying 
documents. 

The  annual  report  of  the  treasurer  was  presented,  accepted 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

Voted,  That  acts  and  expenditures,  made  and  authorized  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  or  by  any  committee  appointed  by  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  during  the  corporate  year  closed  this  day,  be  and  are 
hereby  ratified  and  confirmed. 

The  corporation  then  proceeded  to  ballot  for  officers  for 
the  ensuing  year,  and  the  following  persons  were  unani- 
mously elected :  — 

President.  —  Hon.  Francis  Henry  Appleton. 

Vice-President.  —  George  H.  Richards. 

Treasurer.  —  William  Endicott. 

Secretary.  —  Edward  E.  Allen. 

Trustees.  —  Mrs.  George  Angier,  Francis  Henry  Apple- 
ton,  Walter  Cabot  Baylies,  Robert  H.  Hallowell,  James  A. 
Lowell,  George  H.  Richards,  Richard  M.  Saltonstall,  and 
Albert  Thorndike. 

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The  following  persons  were  unanimously  elected  members 
of  the  corporation:  —  Miss  Eleanor  C.  Bancroft,  Robert  H. 
Bancroft,  Miss  Marian  L.  Blake,  Col.  S.  E.  Blunt,  Charles 
Brigham,  Gorham  Brooks,  Col.  A.  G.  Bullock,  Rev.  Edward 

C.  Camp,  Harry  G.  Chapin,  Francis  B.  Crowninshield,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Horatio  G.  Curtis,  George  C.  Cutler,  Jr.,  George 
B.  Dabney,  Livingston  Davis,  Mrs.  Frank  A.  Day,  Francis 
H.  Dewey,  Alexander  DeWitt,  Rose  L.  Dexter,  Orlando  W. 
Dimick,  William  G.  Dolan,  Edward  B.  Drew,  Thomas  B. 
Eaton,  Adolph  C.  Ely,  Dr.  Oliver  H.  Everett,  David  H. 
Fanning,  Lawrence  A.  Ford,  George  F.  Fuller,  Robert  H. 
Gardiner,  Jr.,  George  P.  Gardner,  Richard  Healy,^  Arthur 

D.  Hill,  Robert  Homans,  Henry  S.  Howe,  James  C.  Howe, 
Lincoln  N.  Kinnicutt,  Mrs.  Amory  A.  Lawrence,  George  V. 
Leverett,  Harold  A.  Ley,  Waldo  Lincoln,  Hon.  James  Logan, 
Miss  Katharine  P.  Loring,  Miss  Louisa  P.  Loring,  John 
Lowell,  Hon.  Robert  Luce,  Theodore  Lyman, ^  Charles  F. 
Mason,  Mrs.  George  H.  Monks,  Mrs.  Edward  L.  Osgood, 
Miss  Fanny  C.  Osgood,  Henry  G.  Pickering,  Mrs.  H.  H. 
Powers,  George  Dwight  Pratt,  F.  Delano  Putnam,  Henry  H. 
Richards,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Richardson,  Jr.,  Frederic  H. 
Robie,  Otis  T.  Russell,  Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall,  Miss  Nora 
Saltonstall,  Bartlett  M.  Shaw,  Miss  Rosanna  D.  Thorndike, 
John  F.  Tufts,  Andrew  B.  Wallace,^  Mrs.  May  Alden  Ward, 
Miss  Ellen  W.  Warren,  Hon.  Charles  G.  Washburn,  H. 
Goodman  Waters,  Barrett  Wendell,  Jr.,^  William  G.  Wen- 
dell, Robert  Winsor,  Jr.,  and  George  S.  Wright. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN, 

Secretary. 

^  Declined  the  election. 

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REPORT  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind, 
Watertown,  October  11,  1916. 

To  the  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  The  blind  being  very 
properly  classed  as  socially  competent,  the  main 
object  of  a  school  for  blind  youth  is  to  subject  its 
pupils  to  such  training  and  influences  as  will  best 
promote  their  independence  and  well-being  after 
leaving  it.  Blind  or  nearly  blind  children  between 
the  ages  of  5  and  19  may  attend  the  Perkins  Insti- 
tution as  day  or  as  resident  pupils  and  may  ordi- 
narily remain  until  they  have  finished  its  high  school 
course  and  pursued  such  vocational  studies  and 
tasks  as  they  individually  seem  to  be  fitted  for. 
The  institution  undertakes  to  furnish  them  both 
school  and  home  training,  being  subdivided  as  to 
living  into  family  groups,  every  member  of  which  is 
a  helper,  —  a  homelike  and  wholesome  arrange- 
ment, we  believe,  —  and  as  to  schooling  into  the 
several  academic  departments  naturally  leading  to 
a  well-balanced  education;  viz.,  English  or  literary, 
physical,  manual,  and  musical.  There  is  ample 
equipment,  including  50  instructors,  which  is  1 
instructor  to  5|  pupils.  While  much  of  the  schooling 
is   quite   equal   to   the   best   obtainable   elsewhere. 


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some  of  it,  the  musical,  is  superior  to  what  most 
schools  for  boys  and  girls  give.  Doubtless  this  is 
because  no  school  whose  pupils  have  full  use  of 
their  eyes  cares  to  emphasize  the  educational  value 
of  music  as  a  school  for  the  blind  does,  especially 
a  residential  one,  where  there  is  the  time  for  it  and 
an  approximate  control  of  the  pupil  body.  A  full 
description  of  the  aims  and  opportunities  of  our 
music  department  will  be  found  appended  to  this 
report. 

The  single  cause  of  blindness  which  has  always 
contributed  most  pupils  to  our  school,  —  the 
ophthalmia  of  the  newborn,  —  is  coming  to  be  so 
well  controlled  in  Massachusetts,  the  state  from 
which  we  chiefly  draw  pupils,  that  the  proportion 
blinded  from  apparently  unpreventable  causes,  many 
of  which  are  of  central  or  brain  origin,  is  destined 
to  grow  larger.  While  the  Perkins  Institution  con- 
tinues to  have  a  fine  lot  of  pupils,  it  is  invited  to 
receive  for  trial  an  increasing  number  of  pupils 
''borderline"  because  of  brain  defect.  In  order  to 
correct  our  own  findings  as  to  this  trouble,  we  have 
always  had  the  aid  of  special  physicians,  like  our 
pediatrician,  and  recently  also  of  experts  at  the 
Massachusetts  Psychopathic  Hospital,  to  which  we 
have  sent  individual  cases  for  examination.  Still, 
our  director  has  deemed  it  advisable  to  undertake 
such  comprehensive  and  exhaustive  study  of  the 
situation  as  seems  feasible  within  our  own  walls  and 
has,   as  a  first  step,   employed  since  last  April  a 

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young  woman  trained  in  the  theory  of  psychology 
and  sociology  at  Vassar  College  and  in  their  practical 
application   upon   hundreds   of  subnormal   children 
under  Dr.  Goddard  at  Vineland,  New  Jersey.    Her 
work  is  to  try  to  measure  the  mentality  of  the 
pupils  by  means  of  tests  corresponding  to  those  of 
Binet  and  Simon,  tentatively  standardized  for  the 
blind  by  Mr.  Robert  Irwin,  supervisor  of  the  classes 
for  the  blind  in  the  public  schools  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  with  whose  labors  we  are  pleased  to  cooperate. 
The  study  we  are  making  is  expected  to  be  of 
definite  value  in  a  better  classification  of  the  pupils 
and  to  lead  doubtless  to  a  modification  of  ways  and 
means   of   teaching   some   of   them.     At   the   very 
least  it  will  show  us  our  pupils  in  a  new  and  illumi- 
nating way.     There   is   no   doubt   that   our   pupil 
material  is  radically  less  homogeneous  than  it  used 
to  be.    Wherever  there  is  a  suspicion  of  degeneracy 
we   must   make   ourselves   clear   as   to   whether   it 
exists  and  as  to  what  sort  it  is.    The  feebleminded 
should  not  be  retained  in  our  schools  for  the  socially 
competent,^  and  our  director  has  tried  to  promote 
for  the  past  two  years   the   institutional  facilities 
for  the  feebleminded  in  our  state,  though  he  has 
seen   no  promise   as   yet  that  such   schools  would 
undertake  to  care  for  the  blind  feebleminded.     For 
the  few  borderhne  or  subnormal  pupils  of  our  school, 
—  at  present  mostly  boys,  —  we  have  employed  an 

1  "  No  feebleminded  child  should  be  admitted  to  any  classes  in  which  children  are  sup- 
posed to  be  trained  to  take  independent  positions  in  the  world."  —  David  Mitchell,  in  Schools 
and  Classes  for  Exceptional  Children,  p.  28.  Survey  Committee  of  the  Cleveland  Foundation. 
Cleveland,  1916. 

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additional  teacher  to  help  teach  them  in  an  ungraded 
class.  The  successful  teacher  of  such  a  class  must 
always  be  clever  and  resourceful,  as  our  special 
teachers  have  been. 

Pupils  borderline  because  of  defective  eyesight 
are  also  misfits  in  regular  classes  either  in  the  public 
schools  or  in  those  for  the  blind;  and  yet  schools 
like  ours  have  usually  admitted  a  good  many  such 
on  the  ground  that  we  might  save  the  eyesight 
they  had.  And  in  many  cases  we  have  done  so. 
Often,  however,  these  pupils  have  developed  here 
''types  of  behavior"  which  increase  their  difficulties 
on  leaving  school.  For  this  reason  we  have  gladly 
promoted  the  opening  of  special  classes  for  the 
*' semi-sighted"  in  the  public  schools  of  a  few  of 
our  cities,  —  Boston,  Springfield,  Cambridge  and 
New  Bedford,  —  which  the  investigations  of  the 
Massachusetts  Commission  for  the  Blind  have  shown 
to  be  demanded.  By  a  recent  vote  of  our  trustees 
we  are  prepared  to  foster  other  similar  classes.  The 
Perkins  Institution  counts  it  a  privilege  to  be  able 
to  aid  individuals  and  the  community  in  ways  which 
come  within  its  province,  and  certainly  promoting 
the  prevention  of  possible  blindness  through  eye- 
strain among  the  young  is  its  business.  We  are  now 
making  possible  at  the  expense  of  the  Kindergarten 
for  the  Blind  a  study  by  Dr.  Abner  Post  of  cases  of 
interstitial  keratitis  among  children,  a  disease  of  the 
eye  which  brings  eye  impairment  to  many  people 
and  a  consequent  lowering  of  their  efficiency. 

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Assistance  of  the  kind  above  indicated  our  kinder- 
garten department,  which  has  separate  funds,  is 
fortunately  able  to  give;  but  it  should  be  under- 
stood that  the  funds  of  the  Perkins  Institution, 
which  includes  the  kindergarten,  need  increasing 
rather  than  those  of  the  kindergarten  only,  and  that 
we,  their  trustees,  must  still  urge  this  fact  upon  the 
attention  of  friends  and  well-wishers  of  the  educa- 
tion of  the  youthful  blind  of  New  England. 

It  is  doubtless  not  generally  known  that  the 
annual  contribution  of  $30,000  from  the  Common- 
wealth, while  acceptable  —  and  we  have  not  asked 
for  many  years  to  have  the  amount  increased  — 
actually  meets  less  than  half  the  cost  of  maintenance 
and  training  while  with  us  of  its  blind  boys  and 
girls  of  school  age,  of  which  the  number  in  attend- 
ance from  Massachusetts  averages  about  190.  The 
director  hopes  some  day  to  see  the  institution  so 
comfortably  endowed  that  he  can  establish  scholar- 
ships for  specially  worthy  and  capable  bUnd  scholars 
and  so  draw  more  such  to  Watertown.  By  this 
means  he  proposes  to  maintain  the  former  and 
present  excellent  standards  of  the  institution.  He 
asserts  that  no  school  for  the  blind  anywhere  offers 
opportunities  superior  to  ours,  and  we  must  believe 
that  few  offer  as  good. 

The  work  of  the  school  department  of  an  institu- 
tion like  ours  is  to  the  casual  observer  the  least 
interesting  thing  about  the  place.  It  goes  slowly 
and  surely  on  from  day  to  day  with  only  gradual 

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changes  and  few  unusual  events.  This  year  the 
manual  training  department  of  both  schools  made 
conspicuous  success  both  in  its  classroom  routine 
and  in  two  public  working  exhibitions.  One  of  our 
devoted  teachers  has  established  a  branch  of  the 
Camp  Fire  among  the  girls,  which  has  been  en- 
joyable and  profitable  to  its  members  and  has  served 
as  a  means  of  bringing  our  girls  in  contact  on  equal 
terms  with  other  girls  of  the  neighborhood.  The 
annual  meeting  of  the  Camp  Fires  of  the  adjacent 
town  of  Newton  was  to  have  been  held  on  our  fine 
girls'  lawn,  but  untoward  weather  conditions  necessi- 
tated its  being  held  indoors.  The  great  hall  of  the 
institution  was  suitably  decorated,  a  wigwam  and 
mimic  fire  installed  on  the  floor  and  a  dehghtful 
program  carried  out.  The  excellent  glee  clubs  both 
of  the  boys  and  of  the  girls  are  in  requisition  for 
more  engagements  outside  than  they  can  accept. 
These  concerts  are  given  without  pay,  but  we  are 
glad  to  give  all  we  can  of  them,  partly  to  make  some 
return  contribution  to  a  generous  pubhc  and  partly 
to  afford  our  pupils  added  chances  to  meet  outside 
people  socially. 

Our  music  students  have  again  enjoyed  many 
privileges  through  the  beneficent  Maria  Kemble 
Oliver  Fund,  by  means  of  which  tickets  have  been 
purchased  for  the  use  of  advanced  pupils  at  concerts 
by  the  Boston  S3miphony  Orchestra  and  the  New 
York  Philharmonic  Orchestra,  at  oratorios  by  the 
Handel     and     Haydn     Society,     at     recitals     by 

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Paderewski,  Elman  and  McCormack,  and  at  grand 
opera. 

Like  everyone  else  we  had  a  Shakespeare  festival 
this  year.  Prof.  E.  Charlton  Black  of  Boston 
University  generously  addressed  the  school  on  the 
subject  of  the  great  playwright,  and  our  boys  acted 
The  Taming  of  the  Shrew.  As  usual  the  success  of 
the  performance  was  due  to  Miss  Jessica  L.  Lang- 
worthy,  the  teacher  of  English  Literature,  who 
makes  the  plays  her  boys  give  one  of  the  conspicuous 
educational  features  of  the  school  year.  An  indirect 
outcome  of  these  plays  is  the  development  of  busi- 
ness ability  in  the  boys.  One  is  chosen  each  year  as 
manager.  He  has  charge  of  advertising  and  selling 
of  tickets.  The  last  two  or  three  years  it  was  felt 
that  the  financial  result  could  not  be  increased  but 
this  year  the  play,  which  was  twice  repeated,  netted 
$328.25  with  tickets  at  35  and  50  cents.  The  fact 
is  generally  known  that  the  money  thus  raised  goes 
to  the  Howe  Memorial  Club  whose  fund,  now 
amounting  to  $2,000,  is  loaned  out  to  blind  people. 
This  is  one  case  in  which  our  generous  Perkins  public 
helps  the  blind  to  help  themselves. 

As  last  year,  we  have  again  made  an  exchange  of 
a  graduate  girl  with  the  Pennsylvania  Institution, 
the  visitor  being  on  the  footing  of  pupil  teacher. 
The  opportunity  so  to  exchange  is  naturally  coveted 
by  the  girls.  We  are  making  a  practice  of  giving 
such  girls  as  want  to  fit  themselves  for  teaching  or 
being   mothers'   helpers   opportunities   to   teach   or 

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train  in  our  kindergarten.  Six  of  the  older  girls 
took  this  training  there  last  year.  There  has  been 
at  the  institution  aU  the  year  as  pupil  teacher  a 
young  Spanish  girl,  not  blind,  a  graduate  of  a  normal 
school  in  Madrid,  who  wished  to  fit  herself  to  teach 
the  blind  in  her  country,  for  whom  teaching  ad- 
vantages are  extremely  few.  Besides  fulfilling  her 
duties  here,  she  observed  the  work  for  the  adult 
blind  as  carried  on  by  the  Massachusetts  Commis- 
sion and  spent  a  short  time  at  the  New  York  City 
Institute  for  the  Blind.  We  hope  gradually  to 
develop  at  Watertown  a  normal  training  depart- 
ment which  will  attract  intending  teachers  of  the 
blind  and  serve  to  carry  the  ideas  of  our  school  into 
other  fields. 

Another  of  our  devoted  teachers,  together  with 
a  graduate  of  the  school,  carried  on  a  camp  this 
summer  especially  for  the  few  orphan  blind  girls 
who  would  otherwise  have  been  boarded  out  with 
families.  Obviously  it  was  a  splendid  thing  for  these 
girls  to  be  given  the  wholesome  experience  so  many 
seeing  young  people  have  every  season. 

Changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  staff  were  the 
resignation  of  Miss  Grace  B.  Bicknell,  the  very 
acceptable  and  gracious  head  of  the  girls'  school  for 
the  past  five  years;  and  of  Miss  Laura  A.  Brown  of 
the  manual  training  department  who  has  given  the 
school  twenty-two  years  of  unstinted  service,  two 
of  them  as  special  teacher  to  Thomas  Stringer;  and 
of  Mrs.  M.  A.  Knowlton  who  for  thirty-nine  years 

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was  matron  of  Fisher  Cottage.  She  was  a  practical, 
efficient,  New  England  type  of  household  head,  and 
insisted  on  seK-reliance  in  her  girls.  A  serious  illness 
warned  her  this  year  to  take  life  more  quietly  than 
she  could  here.  Our  best  wishes  and  those  of  their 
many  grateful  girls  go  with  these  helpers. 

The  school  has  this  year  placed  four  graduate 
boys  in  positions,  three  as  instructors  in  other 
institutions  and  one  as  worker  with  the  New  York 
Association  for  the  Blind.  One  graduate  girl  with 
a  good  deal  of  sight,  who  taught  at  the  kindergarten 
last  year,  has  been  appointed  in  charge  of  a  country 
school  near  her  home,  while  one  graduate  young 
man,  having  been  graduated  in  June  from  the  first 
year  course  of  the  Boston  School  for  Social  Workers, 
was  substitute  secretary  this  summer  of  two  of 
Boston's  districts  of  the  Associated  Charities.  Dr. 
Jeffery  R.  Brackett,  superintendent  of  the  school 
above  mentioned,  said  of  this  young  man  that  he 
''was  a  very  interesting  and  helpful  member  of  the 
class  in  every  way.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the 
Class  Committee,  by  choice  of  his  classmates.  They 
had  for  him,   I  know,   great  respect  and  regard.'^ 

The  officers  of  this  institution  have  felt  for  a  long 
time  that  the  same  people  come  over  and  over  again 
to  our  concerts  and  other  functions  and  that  in 
order  to  widen  our  interested  public  some  new 
means  must  be  found.  They  believe  one  has  been 
found  in  giving  some  time  and  strength  —  and  not 
by  any  means  so  much  is  required  as  would  be 

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required  in  preparation  for  public  exhibition  —  to 
entertaining  clubs  and  organizations  who  ask  to 
visit  us  en  masse.  This  year  the  school  has  received 
various  groups  of  social  workers,  classes  in  social 
ethics  from  Harvard  College,  several  women's  clubs, 
teachers  of  special  classes  of  the  Boston  schools  with 
their  supervisor,  a  group  of  Mexican  teachers  study- 
ing in  Boston,  together  with  members  of  the  Boston 
Authors'  Club. 

In  June  there  was  held  at  the  institution,  as  two 
years  ago,  an  all-day  conference  of  the  Massachusetts 
agencies  for  the  blind.  Each  agency  through  its 
representative  explained  its  methods  of  work  and 
its  plans,  an  explanation  which  with  the  general 
discussion  that  ensued  must  promote  mutual  under- 
standing and  sympathy  with  resulting  cooperation 
and  help  to  the  blind. 

The  meeting  of  the  Perkins  Alumnae  Association 
was  especially  notable  this  year.  Mary  Antin  was 
so  kind  as  to  be  the  association's  guest  for  luncheon 
and  to  address  it  in  the  evening.  This  fact  brought 
out  an  unusually  large  number  of  members  and 
added  naturally  to  the  success  of  the  gathering. 
The  annual  return  to  its  alma  mater  of  such  an 
organization  is  always  attended  with  encouragement 
and  uplift  to  graduates  and  undergraduates  alike. 

The  greatest  change  that  has  visited  the  institu- 
tion since  the  death  of  Mr.  Anagnos  is  the  death  in 
April  last  of  Mr.  Dennis  Reardon,  manager  of  the 
Howe   Memorial  Press   since   its  establishment  in 

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1882.  He  had  been  devoted  in  season  and  out  to 
the  interests  of  every  department  of  the  institution 
and  withal  so  practically  and  efficiently  that  the 
whole  place  seems  changed  indeed  without  his 
presence.  A  full  account  of  his  life  is  given  else- 
where in  this  report. 

Mr.  Frank  Bryan,  an  expert  for  fifteen  years  in 
the  making  of  plates  from  which  books  for  the  blind 
are  embossed,  but  for  the  past  eight  years  the 
efficient  manager  of  our  workshop  for  adults  at 
South  Boston,  will  undertake  the  management  of 
both  workshop  and  printing  office,  it  having  been 
Mr.  Reardon's  wish  that  he  should  succeed  him. 
This  workshop  can  happily  report,  instead  of  the 
small  deficit  of  last  year,  that  it  has  again  made 
both  ends  meet.  Not  so  many  new  mattresses  were 
ordered  from  it  as  usual  but  an  uncommonly  large 
number  of  old  ones  were  sent  in  for  renovation. 
Mr.  Bryan  reports  that  one  month  of  the  year  was 
the  busiest  and  best  for  the  workers  that  the  shop 
has  ever  had.  Not  a  little  credit  for  obtaining  work 
for  the  shop  belongs  to  the  clerk  in  the  salesroom  on 
Boylston  Street.  Last  year  Mrs.  Lincoln  gave  up 
the  position  after  many  years  of  disinterested  service. 
Both  she  and  her  sister.  Miss  Estelle  Mendum,  who 
preceded  Mrs.  Lincoln  by  a  long  period  of  years, 
are  gratefully  remembered  by  the  institution. 

Intimately  connected  with  the  Howe  Memorial 
Press  is  the  institution  library,  and  a  very  useful 
service  it  performs,  not  only  supplying  the  school 

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with  textbooks  and  the  pupils  with  reading  matter 
but  the  adult  blind  outside  with  all  the  books  they 
care  to  borrow.  The  total  circulation  of  the  year 
is  12,427. 

In  the  year  1907  a  list  of  192  pages  was  printed 
and  circulated  describing  the  books  in  English  con- 
tained in  our  special  reference  library  of  material 
treating  of  blindness  and  the  blind  or  bearing  in  some 
way  upon  this  subject.  This  year  a  first  supplement 
to  it  has  been  prepared  for  the  printer  and  printed 
and  a  goodly  number  distributed.  This  library  of 
ours  has  been  recognized  by  the  American  Library 
Association  as  ''sponsor"  for  the  subject  of  blindness. 

The  state  Commissioner  of  Education  was 
recently  persuaded  by  our  director  to  cause  the 
conduct  of  the  work  of  teaching  the  adult  blind  in 
their  homes  to  be  taken  over  by  the  state  Com- 
mission for  the  Blind.  When  this  "Home  Teaching" 
was  begun  in  1900  there  was  no  organization  in 
the  state  except  the  Perkins  Institution  in  any  sense 
prepared  to  conduct  it;  hence  we  undertook  its 
direction.  Since  then,  the  institution  has  stood  by 
and  furthered  the  enterprise  in  every  way  it  could. 
It  has  both  bought  many  books  for  it  from  England 
and  made  others  for  it,  and  besides  has  supplied 
free  such  service  of  its  staff  of  clerks  and  librarians 
as  was  needed,  also  occupational  material  at  cost 
to  the  home  teachers  and  their  pupils.  But  the 
institution  could  not  do  the  intimate  follow  up  work 
which  the  Commission  has  agents  to  do.     Home 

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teaching  means  cheer,  comfort  and  solace  and  hope 
to  the  bUnd  who  receive  it,  more  than  can  be  counted. 
The  associating  of  it  with  the  other  functions  of  the 
Commission  will  make  for  economy  of  effort  and 
efficiency. 

This  institution  cooperated  with  several  other 
agencies,  forming  the  Park  Shows  Committee  of 
Boston,  in  preparing  and  financing  an  exhibition  of 
attractive  still  and  moving  pictures  of  its  activities. 
These  pictures  were  displayed  on  given  evenings 
throughout  the  summer  season  of  1916  at  different 
public  outside  places  throughout  the  city.  Such 
publicity,  intentionally  educational  as  this  has  been, 
is  believed  to  be  a  distinct  contribution  to  the  social 
service  work  of  the  community. 

Last  year  the  pupils  made  some  personal  con- 
tribution of  garments  and  work  to  the  Belgian 
Relief  Committee  and  the  Red  Cross.  This  year 
the  "printing  office"  made  600  sets  of  interlocking 
dominoes  and  300  checkerboards  and  men  and  sent 
them  at  half  price  to  Miss  Winifred  Holt  for  her 
labors  in  behalf  of  blinded  soldiers  in  France.  A  few 
American  ladies,  in  part  preparation  for  contributing 
their  personal  services  to  the  same  cause,  visited  the 
institution  enough  times  to  get  a  fair  insight  into 
what  blind  people  can  do  and  how  they  do  it. 

Louis  Yott,  our  last  deaf -blind  pupil  of  those  of 
whom  special  mention  has  been  made  in  these  re- 
ports, having  reached  the  age  of  18  and  acquired 
pretty  good  use  of  English  and  facility  in  all  the 

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manual  occupations  taught  at  the  institution,  seemed 
to  all  here  specially  interested  in  him  and  competent 
to  judge,  to  have  been  at  the  institution  long  enough 
for  his  own  good.  He  was  accordingly  recently  dis- 
charged and  returned  to  his  family.  He  has  ''useful 
sight"  and  can  be  helpful  especially  on  a  farm. 

The  convention  of  American  Instructors  of  the 
Blind  met  in  Halifax  this  past  July  at  the  invitation 
of  Sir  Frederick  Fraser  and  the  Management  of  the 
institution  of  which  he  is  the  honored  superintendent. 
A  large  number  of  superintendents  attended,  18  of 
whom  in  passing  through  Boston,  made  calls  or 
visits  at  the  Perkins  Institution,  4  of  them  while  it 
was  still  in  session.  Would  that  more  had  come 
then;  the  end  of  the  school  year  is  an  interesting 
season  at  Watertown,  that  of  last  June  having  been 
specially  so. 

At  the  Halifax  convention  it  was  voted  to  accept 
the  recommendations  of  the  Committee  on  Uniform 
Type,  viz. :  that  the  system  of  punctography  known 
as  British  Braille,  grades  1  and  2,  be  pushed  as  the 
system  for  America,  ^provided  the  British  would  so 
modify  it  as  to  make  it  accord  with  the  requirements 
of  American  schoolmen.  The  American  Commission 
dealing  with  this  delicate  and  important  subject  has 
been  enlarged  to  include  representatives  of  residential 
and  day  schools  for  the  blind,  public  and  private 
embossing  presses,  libraries  of  embossed  books,  and 
home  teaching.  A  similar  British  committee  has 
likewise  been  appointed.     The  results  of  their  at- 

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tempts  to  get  together  will,  it  is  hoped,  lead  to 
something  definite  within  the  year. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  current  year,  October  1, 
1916,  the  number  of  bhnd  persons  registered  at  the 
Perkins  Institution  was  311,  three  more  than  on  the 
same  date  of  the  previous  year.  This  number  in- 
cluded 76  boys  and  75  girls  in  the  upper  school, 
61  boys  and  62  girls  in  the  lower  school,  12  teachers 
and  officers,  and  25  adults  in  the  workshop  at  South 
Boston.  There  have  been  62  admitted  and  59  dis- 
charged during  the  year. 

While  there  have  been  several  isolated  cases  of 
rather  serious  illness,  only  one  proved  fatal.  John 
J.  Poline  of  Boston,  a  member  of  the  boys'  primary 
department,  died  of  membranous  croup,  Dec.  23, 
1915,  in  Concord,  Mass.,  where  he  had  gone  to 
spend  his  Christmas  holidays.  The  only  contagious 
diseases  which  have  appeared  in  the  school  were 
whooping  cough  which  claimed  several  victims  in  the 
girls'  kindergarten  and  girls'  upper  school,  and  scar- 
let fever  of  which  there  were  two  cases  in  the  boys' 
kindergarten.  Two  of  the  older  girls  developed 
epilepsy  and  were  obliged  to  go  to  their  homes. 

Causes  of  Blindness  of  Pupils  admitted  during  the 
School  Year  1915-1916.  —  Ophthalmia  neonatorum, 
12;  Interstitial  keratitis,  1 ;  Phlyctenular  keratitis,  1 ; 
Specific  keratitis  and  uveitis,  1 ;  Injuries,  1;  Atrophy 
of  the  optic  nerve,  11;  Albinism,  1;  Congenital,  2; 
Congenital  amblyopia,  2;  Congenital  cataracts,  7; 
Uveitis,  1;  Irido-cyclitis,  1;  Purulent  conjunctivitis, 

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1;  Buphthalmos,  1;  Syphilitic  iritis,  1;  Choroiditis, 
2;  High  myopia  and  trachoma,  1;  Hyperopia,  1; 
Glaucoma,  1;  Pemphigus,  1. 

Death  of  Members  of  the  Corporation. 

Edwin  Munroe  Bacon;  Rev.  George  Wolcott 
Brooks;  Mrs.  Louisa  Norton,  widow  of  William 
Story  Bullard;  Mrs.  Maria  Louisa,  widow  of  the 
Hon.  Edward  Livingston  Davis;  Francis  Charles 
Foster;  George  Augustus  Gardner;  Arthur  T. 
Lyman;  I.  B.  Mason  of  Providence;  Mrs.  Annie 
Bolton,  widow  of  WiUiam  Matthews;  Miss  Made- 
leine Curtis  Mixter;  Dennis  A.  Reardon; 
Henry  Frost  Spencer;  Ezra  Ripley  Thayer; 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Bennett,  widow  of  William  Wil- 
kins  Warren;    John  William  Wheelwright. 

All  which  is  respectfully  submitted  by 

ANNIE   GILMAN  ANGIER, 
FRANCIS  HENRY  APPLETON, 
WALTER  CABOT  BAYLIES, 
THOMAS  B.  FITZPATRICK, 
PAUL  REVERE  FROTHINGHAM, 
ROBERT  H.  HALLOWELL, 
JAMES  ARNOLD  LOWELL, 
GEORGE  H.  RICHARDS, 
WILLIAM  L.  RICHARDSON, 
ANNETTE  P.  ROGERS, 
RICHARD   M.  SALTONSTALL, 
ALBERT  THORNDIKE, 

Trustees. 
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ANSWERING  MANY  QUESTIONS  THAT 
HAVE  BEEN  ASKED  IN  RELATION  TO 
THE  TEACHING  OF  MUSIC  IN  THE 
PERKINS  INSTITUTION. 


The  Perkins  Institution  a  Boarding  School. 

The  Perkins  Institution  is  a  boarding  school  where  pupils 
between  the  age  of  five  and  twenty  who  have  defective  sight 
or  who  are  without  sight  are  received  for  educational  train- 
ing. 

The  school  year  coincides  with  that  of  the  public  schools 
and  the  pupils  go  to  their  homes  during  the  vacation  periods. 

The  hours  of  study,  practice,  and  recitation  begin  at  8.15 
A.M.,  directly  after  the  morning  assembly,  and  with  suitable 
provision  for  the  dinner  hour,  continue  until  five  o'clock. 
One  hour  of  study  in  the  class  rooms  is  required  in  the  even- 
ing, and  regular  school  work  is  conducted  on  Saturdays  until 
twelve  o'clock,  noon. 

The  Music  Department  One  of  Several. 

The  music  school  is  one  of  several  departments,  each  of 
which  has  its  peculiar  value  and  place  in  the  general  curricu- 
lum. Music  is  taught  for  its  educational  value,  and  practice 
and  lessons  are  conducted  exactly  as  study  and  recitations 
in  grammar  and  mathematics  might  be.  Pupils  go  to  their 
appointed  music  study,  lessons  or  supervised  practice  as  they 
go  to  their  geography  classes  or  to  the  gymnasium.  From 
this  regular  study  and  practice  there  is  no  escape. 

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The  Music  Faculty. 

The  music  faculty  numbers  twelve  teachers,  each  one  of 
whom  is  trained  for  special  instruction  in  some  particular 
branch  of  music. 

The  Organization. 

We  are  organized  in  three  groups  as  follows: 

The  kindergarten  and  primary  group  of  three  teachers; 

the  girls'  upper  school  with  four  teachers,  and  the  boys' 

upper  school  with  five  teachers. 

The  music  director  and  the  teacher  of  musical  science  have 

classes  in  both  the  girls'  and  the  boys'  schools. 

The  Equipment. 

We  have  45  music  rooms,  61  pianofortes,  and  1  large 
three-manual  pipe  organ.  In  addition  we  have  a  very  fine 
collection  of  orchestral  instruments  which  are  used  in  the 
theory  classes  to  familiarize  the  pupils  with  their  tone  qual- 
ities, their  use  in  orchestral  writing,  and  their  size  and  shape. 

Music  Library. 

Our  music  library  is  a  large  one  and  is  valued  at  approxi- 
mately $4,000.  It  is  well  housed  in  a  fine,  large  room  equally 
accessible  to  both  the  boys'  and  the  girls'  music  corridors. 
It  is  conducted  by  the  teacher  of  musical  science  who  finds 
it  a  most  convenient  place  in  which  to  receive  classes  from 
either  the  girls'  or  the  boys'  music  departments. 

The  Braille  music  of  this  library  is  freely  loaned  without 
charge  to  blind  musicians  throughout  the  country  and  its 
usefulness  is  very  great. 

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Course  of  Study,  First  Lessons. 

Our  music  course  is  conducted  on  logical  methods.  The 
first  lessons  are  devoted  to  the  study  of  ear  training  and  of 
solfeggio.  To  this  are  added  tone  production,  staff,  and 
Braille  notation  of  music,  and  music  fundamentals.  Chorus 
singing  is  also  included  in  this  early  training. 

Pupils  in  small  classes,  during  their  connection  with  the 
kindergarten  and  the  primary  schools  have  daily  appoint- 
ments with  the  teacher  of  solfeggio  and  singing,  and  they  are 
not  permitted  to  begin  the  study  of  the  pianoforte  until  rec- 
ommended by  this  teacher  as  qualified  for  instrumental 
instruction. 

Pianoforte  Instruction. 

When  prepared  for  it,  pupils  may  begin  the  practice  of  the 
pianoforte,  at  first  in  small  classes  which  meet  the  teacher 
daily,  and  afterward  in  still  smaller  groups  or,  it  may  be, 
individual  instruction  is  given  on  alternate  days. 

Chorus  singing  and  solfeggio  are  still  required,  however, 
as  well  as  thorough  grounding  in  scale  and  chord  formation, 
rhythm  and  general  music  fundamentals.  Proficiency  in 
writing,  reading,  and  singing  music  is  required. 

Promotion  to  the  Upper  School. 

With  promotion  to  the  upper  school  the  study  of  solfeggio 
is  discontinued.  The  girls  are  immediately  drafted  into  the 
large  chorus  while  the  boys  delay  chorus  singing  until  their 
voices  change  and  become  settled. 

The  pupils  quite  generally  continue  the  study  of  the  piano- 
forte when  promoted  and  a  very  few  begin  the  study  of  the 
pipe  organ,  while  a  much  larger  number  receive  special 
lessons  in  singing. 

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Music  Science  Study  Encouraged. 
Pupils  are  encouraged  to  study  the  science  of  music,  and 
to  obtain  an  intimate  knowledge  of  its  content  and  structure. 
Talented  pupils  may,  with  consent  of  the  faculty,  elect  to 
study  harmony,  counterpoint  and  theory  after  completing  a 
course  in  algebra,  and  credits  are  given  them  toward  the 
school  diploma  for  work  done  in  these  subjects. 

Chorus  Singing. 

Chorus  singing  is  required  of  all  music  pupils  and  of  others 
who  may  have  received  sufficient  training  in  solfeggio  and 
tone  production  to  make  them  efficient  members  of  the  choir. 

The  large  chapel  choir  numbers  from  eighty  to  one  hun- 
dred singers.  They  meet  for  rehearsal  on  Mondays,  Tues- 
days, Thursdays  and  Fridays  at  3.15  p.m.,  when  visitors  are 
always  welcome.  They  also  sing  every  day  except  Sunday 
at  the  morning  assembly  of  the  school. 

The  music  used  by  this  choir  is  the  Braille,  which  is  read 
by  the  sense  of  touch,  and  the  young  singers  commit  it  to 
memory  paragraph  by  paragraph  as  directed. 

Girls'  Glee  Club. 

On  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays  the  singing  hour  is  given 
to  the  Girls'  Glee  Club  whose  membership  is  composed 
largely  of  the  older  and  more  experienced  singers  of  the 
girls'  school. 

Participation  of  this  club  in  church  socials,  public  meet- 
ings of  women's  clubs  and  the  like  has  elicited  favourable 
comment  and  afforded  the  club  girls  much  enjojinent. 

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Pianoforte  Normal  Department. 
Post  graduates  who  wish  to  adopt  music  as  a  vocation  in 
life  are  required  to  participate  in  the  three  year  course  of  the 
Pianoforte  Normal  Department.  Seeing  children  from  sur- 
rounding towns  visit  our  school  twice  each  week  for  instruc- 
tion in  music  from  these  post  graduates  who  conduct  this 
teaching  under  the  immediate  direction  of  a  qualified  mem- 
ber of  our  faculty.  With  the  satisfactory  completion  of  this 
course  the  young  teacher  is  given  a  certificate,  and  should 
the  recipient  also  complete  the  instrumental  course  at  the 
New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  this  certificate  is 
accepted  by  that  school  in  lieu  of  the  normal  work  required 
there. 

Concert  Attendance. 

Through  the  kindness  of  friends,  our  pupils  have  for  years 
enjoyed  the  privilege  of  attendance  on  the  opera,  symphony 
concerts,  and  recitals  in  Boston.  This  invaluable  advantage 
has  recently  been  very  greatly  enlarged  by  the  generosity  of 
another  friend  who  has  invested  for  us  the  sum  of  $10,000, 
the  income  from  which  we  are  at  liberty  to  use  in  the  pur- 
chase of  tickets  to  such  musical  events  as  the  director  deems 
advisable. 

This  frequent  hearing  of  good  music  given  in  the  best 
possible  manner,  coupled  with  thorough  study,  is  largely 
responsible  for  the  superior  average  musicianship  found 
among  our  pupils. 


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Lack  of  Sight  not  a  Sign  of  Talent. 

The  lack  of  sight  in  no  way  increases  the  amount  of 
musical  talent  in  any  individual,  and  our  pupils  are  neither 
more  nor  less  talented  than  the  average  public  school  chil- 
dren. 

They  all  do,  however,  live  in  an  atmosphere  of  music  and 
they  may  have  a  keener  zest  in  the  pursuit  of  musical  at- 
tainment than  most  young  people,  and  yet  other  things 
being  equal,  this  last  statement  is  open  to  debate. 

While  large  numbers  of  our  pupils  do  become  more  or  less 
proficient  in  instrumental  music,  in  singing,  or  in  musical 
science,  only  a  limited  number  who  show  decided  aptitude 
are  encouraged  or  permitted  to  continue  the  advanced  study 
of  music  as  a  vocation. 

Music  as  an  Avocation. 

As  an  avocation,  for  its  invaluable  merit  and  worth  in 
the  building  of  character,  —  as  a  social  asset,  music  study 
is  permitted  and  encouraged  up  to  a  point  where  pupils 
should  begin  to  devote  their  maximum  time  and  effort  to 
their  life  pursuit. 

Thus,  if  our  pupils  generally  appear  to  know  more  about 
musical  subjects  than  other  children,  it  is  because  of  their 
training,  and  opportunities  for  hearing  and  practicing  music 
under  exceptionally  advantageous  circumstances. 

Stereotyping  Music. 

In  order  that  our  department  may  be  truly  efficient,  and 

that  self-reliance  shall  be  promoted,  we  are  obliged  to  spend 

much  time  and  money  in  embossing  music  into  the  Braille 

system  for  general  use  in  the  school.     With  the  aid  of  a 

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power  machine,  music  is  translated  into  the  Braille  on  brass 
sheets  which  are  proof-read  until  all  errors  are  eliminated, 
after  which  these  plates  are  forwarded  to  our  press  room, 
where  paper  editions  in  quantity  are  made. 

Final  Word  —  Why  We  Teach  Music. 
In  teaching  music  to  so  many  of  our  pupils  in  this  logical, 
systematic  and  thorough  manner  we  wish  it  to  be  understood 
that  no  attempt  is  being  made  to  urge  many  of  them  into  the 
field  of  music  as  a  profession.  In  fact  there  are  compara- 
tively few,  whether  with  or  without  sight,  who  should  at- 
tempt the  study  of  music  as  a  vocation.  We  teach  music  to 
our  pupils  because  it  is  the  only  fine  art  which  they  can 
pursue  on  an  equality  with  the  seeing,  and  because  we 
believe  that  any  system  of  education  which  omits  this  sub- 
ject or  which  leaves  it  to  chance,  is  seriously  defective.  We 
teach  music  logically,  systematically,  and  thoroughly  because 
we  know  that  anything  that  is  worth  doing  at  all  is  worth 
doing  well.  We  hope  that  all  our  pupils  may  have  an  intelli- 
gent and  discriminating  appreciation  of  music.  We  wish  for 
them  to  play  or  to  sing  well,  but  we  sincerely  advise  that 
only  those  with  genuine  talent  and  all-round  ability  should 
undertake  the  mastery  of  music  as  a  vocation. 

EDWIN  L.   GARDINER. 


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DENNIS  A.  REARDON. 


Each  of  our  older  institutions  for  the  blind  can 
doubtless  point  with  pride  to  one  or  more  former 
pupils  who  have  remained  in  its  service  and  been 
heroes  of  achievement  for  successive  generations  of 
pupils  to  contemplate  with  courage  and  hope.  The 
Perkins  Institution  has  had  a  good  many  such, 
several  of  them  having  been  extraordinary  illustra- 
tions of  the  triumph  of  spirit  over  bodily  defect. 
The  latest  of  these,  who  died  within  the  year,  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Dennis  Alvin  Reardon  had  been  connected  with 
the  institution  as  pupil,  employee  and  officer  for  over 
half  a  century.  He  came  to  it  in  1855,  a  little  Irish 
orphan  boy.  One  only  of  his  eyes  was  then  seriously 
defective.  A  fellow  pupil  writes  of  him:  ''Dennis 
was  a  good  scholar.  I  well  recall  his  ever  genial 
spirit  and  helpfulness  among  the  boys,  for  he  used 
his  sight  in  their  service  whenever  he  could."  With 
the  years  this  sight  gradually  improved,  alike  under 
an  oculist's  attention  and  the  wholesome  regimen  of 
the  school,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  he  left  to  begin 
work  on  a  farm.  Soon,  however,  he  set  out  to  find 
a  friend,  and  to  see  the  world,  paying  his  way  along 
as  laborer  on  trains  or  boats  until  he  finally  reached 
his  destination  in  Texas.     There  he  was  employed 

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for  some  months  in  the  U.  S.  Coast  Survey,  an  ex- 
perience in  planning  and  charting  which  afterwards 
stood  him  in  good  stead;  afterwards  as  clerk  in  the 
Freedman's  Bureau;  then  he  traveled  north  to 
Michigan,  where,  as  he  used  to  tell,  he  discovered 
that  he  had  talent  for  practical  house  carpentering. 
But  he  had  seen  enough  of  the  world,  and  one  day, 
after  eight  years  of  such  wanderings  and  experiences, 
which  must  have  been  very  varied,  he  reappeared  at 
South  Boston,  down  at  the  heel  and  asking  for  some 
settled  employment  at  the  institution.  Fortunately 
he  had  left  a  good  record  there,  so  Dr.  Howe  was 
glad  to  give  him  work.  He  became  kitchen  man 
and  man  of  all  work,  doing  errands  and  driving  the 
donkey  cart  between  the  school  for  the  blind  and 
that  for  "idiots,"  of  which  Dr.  Howe  was  also  super- 
intendent. He  had  indeed  come  back  to  the  right 
place,  for  within  some  months  his  sight  began  to 
fail  him  again  and  within  two  years  he  became 
totally  blind.  At  this  period  he  was  much  depressed 
and  became  habituated  to  insomnia,  a  condition  which 
often  attaches  itself  to  brain-busy  people  who,  like 
some  of  the  blind,  either  do  not  or  cannot  get  com- 
mensurate bodily  exercise. 

''Dennis,"  as  he  was  familiarly  called  by  all  his 
old  friends,  did  not  immediately  rise  superior  to  his 
condition,  as  once  in  a  while  a  blinded  person  does 
from  the  first,  but,  like  most,  took  a  considerable 
time  for  readjustment.  However,  having  once  settled 
the  matter  with  himself  and  having  realized  how 

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vastly  better  off  he  could  be  than  most  of  those  by 
whom  he  was  surrounded,  who  not  only  did  not 
know  how  the  world  and  people  looked,  and  there- 
fore were  shut  in  even  in  dreams,  but  also  were  by 
no  means  his  equals  either  in  the  realization  of  ex- 
perience or  in  the  knowledge  of  how  thousands  of 
common  actions  were  done  through  having  done 
them,  —  coming  to  himself  as  he  finally  did,  he  re- 
gained his  courage  and  good  spirits  and  soon  showed 
that  his  capacity  for  doing  most  things  was  unim- 
paired. One  of  his  daily  employments  at  first  was 
to  furnish  man  power  in  the  then  simple  press  room 
for  embossing  books.  He  also  served  for  periods  as 
night  watchman,  when  between  rounds  he  would 
busy  himself  in  working  up  little  mechanical  in- 
ventions; for  his  versatile  mind  was  always  active. 
He  was  then,  as  always,  well  and  strong  and  blessed 
with  superabundant  vitality;  and,  being  to  the  last 
degree  grateful  to  the  institution,  he  labored  from 
that  time  forth  in  its  sole  behalf.  He  could  reheve 
a  sick  night  watchman  and  work  the  next  day  with- 
out showing  fatigue.  He  seemed  to  need  but  little 
sleep.  He  thus  came  to  fill  his  uncommonly  long 
hours  with  giving  form  to  the  imagings  of  his  fertile 
mind.  Invention  was  his  hobby,  and  he  rode  it 
well:  —  indeed,  it  became  his  blessed  safety  valve. 
He  early  contrived  a  horseshoe  with  adjustable 
caulks  for  slippery  weather,  which  received  a  bronze 
medal  at  a  Boston  Mechanics  Fair  of  that  period. 
In  February,  1877,  he  and  his  assistants  had  con- 

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nected  by  wire  two  of  the  widely  separated  buildings 
of  the  institution,  and,  as  he  used  to  tell  the  story, 
having  got   Dr.   Alexander   Graham   Bell   and   his 
assistant  to  apply  the  magnets  over  the  organ  reeds 
in  the  one  building  and  to  attach  an  enlarged  re- 
ceiver in  the  hall  of  the  other,  the  music  was  distinctly 
heard  there  by  an  audience  brought  together  for  the 
purpose.     This  Dennis  believed  to  have  been  the 
first  demonstration  of  the  kind.     Up  to  this  time  the 
school  program  had  been  regulated  either  by  hand 
bell  or  by  '^  Jonah,"  as  the  somewhat  irregularly 
striking  tower  clock  was  called.     Dennis  had  thought 
out  an  original  means  of  improvement  and  during 
the  summer  vacation  of  1877  had  had  mechanics  and 
an  electrician  install  throughout  the  institution  vi- 
brating bells  which,  as  he  could  not  then  buy,  he  had 
had  made  to  his  order,   connecting  them  with  a 
battery  and  with  a  master  clock  in  the  office.     In 
this  way  he  forced  his  clock  to  set  off  these  bells  at 
desired  intervals  of  time.     Dr.  Bell  and  other  scien- 
tists are  said  to  have  come  to  the  institution  to  see 
this  program  system,  for  it  worked  from  the  first. 
Three  years  later,   the  same  system  having  been 
connected  with  a  better  clock  in  the  printing  office, 
it  continued  to  announce  the  school  program  with 
entire  success  from  that  day  to  the  day  in  1912  when 
the  school  was  removed  to  Watertown,  where,  indeed, 
the  much  more  elaborate  and  expensive  self-winding 
eight  program  system  is  no  more  sure  or  any  more 
satisfactory. 

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Other  of  his  early  inventions,  ingenious  and  working 
beautifully  in  model  but  coming  to  nothing,  were  a 
railroad  block  signalling  device  and  a  push  button 
scheme  for  announcing  to  the  eyes  of  passengers 
what  the  next  station  would  be.  While  working 
on  an  imagined  improvement  to  the  telephone  by 
means  of  which  he  hoped  to  talk  to  a  friend  in  Eng- 
land, he  noticed  that  the  interposition  of  the  metal 
selenium  affected  the  sounds  heard  in  his  model 
according  to  the  presence  or  absence  of  light.  This 
led  to  a  conviction  that  he  could  contrive  a  way  by 
which  the  blind  might  learn  to  read  ordinary  print 
with  their  ears;  and  he  worked  long  and  laboriously 
over  the  matter.  All  these  things  which  were 
original  with  him  were  not  wholly  impracticable,  as 
was  another  plan  he  developed  and  sent  to  The 
Scientific  American,  proposing  the  transferring  to  the 
eye  sockets  of  the  blind  the  eyeballs  of  criminals 
about  to  be  executed.  Obviously  he  dropped  one 
after  another  of  his  schemes;  but  there  was  one  at 
which  he  labored  at  odd  intervals  to  the  day  of  his 
death,  spending  more  money  than  he  could  afford  in 
the  hope  of  arriving  at  his  result,  —  that  of  over- 
coming friction  and  producing  perpetual  motion. 
He  used  to  say:  ''I  don't  expect  to  produce  it,  but 
I  can't  see  why  the  thing  is  impossible,  for,  given  the 
original  impulse,  as  in  the  case  of  the  heavenly  bodies, 
a  frictionless  body,  revolving  in  a  vacuum,  should  be 
unable  to  stop."  And  he  had  the  courage  to  believe 
implicitly  in  the  attainment  of  the  thing,  —  a  faith 

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that  not  only  buoyed  him  up  in  this  as  in  other 
matters  but  that  served  to  afford  him  wholesome 
resource  for  many  and  many  a  wakeful  hour. 

In  the  annual  report  of  the  Perkins  Institution  for 
1879  appears  this  recognition  of  him:  "Mr.  Reardon 
is  a  man  of  rare  mechanical  ability.  His  inventions 
bear  the  stamp  of  originality  and  the  evidences  of  a 
powerful  mind.  His  talents  are  found  to  be  of  great 
service  everywhere  in  our  establishment,  but  most 
especially  in  our  printing-office,  of  which  he  has  a 
general  supervision.  In  the  words  of  the  director, 
'his  mechanical  genius,  power  of  putting  perfection 
into  the  minutest  details,  and  love  of  the  simple  and 
beautiful,  are  remarkable  mental  characteristics,  and 
are  of  great  use  in  the  planning  and  execution  of  our 
improvements  in  the  best  and  most  economical 
manner.  It  is  a  striking  instance  of  the  power  of 
the  mind  to  overleap  outward  barriers,  that,  where 
experienced  workmen  have  been  baffled  by  mechani- 
cal difficulties  and  unforeseen  obstructions,  his  keen 
insight  and  correct  judgment  have  invariably  found  a 
way  out  of  every  dilemma.'  "  From  being  ''help"  in 
the  printing  office  he  had  risen  within  five  years  to 
be  its  manager.  In  the  report  for  1880  appears  an 
account  of  improvements  in  the  printing  department, 
which  had  recently  undergone  reconstruction  and  ex- 
pansion as  the  "Howe  Memorial  Press."  Mr. 
Anagnos  therein  gives  Mr.  Reardon  full  credit  for 
planning  the  new  and  improved  printing  press, 
saying:    "The  masterly  arrangement  for  automatic 

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feed  and  delivery  is  not  the  least  among  these  im- 
provements. The  press  is  sound  in  mechanism.,  and 
complete  in  all  its  appointments.  It  embosses  eight 
hundred  leaves  per  hour,  and  its  work  is  so  superior 
in  point  of  legibility,  height  of  relief,  and  evenness 
of  impression,  to  any  thus  far  produced,  that  it 
receives  the  cordial  approbation  and  unreserved  com- 
m^endation  of  all  who  are  familiar  with  the  subject." 
And  the  same  Director  quotes  from  a  Principal  of 
another  institution,  as  to  the  impression  itself,  ''the 
specimen  sent  me  of  the  work  of  the  Howe  Memorial 
Press  is  certainly  as  near  perfection  as  any  relief  work 
can  be.  It  is  beautiful."  Again,  the  same  report 
credits  Mr.  Reardon  with  a  still  greater  boon  to  the 
cause  of  the  blind.  Up  to  that  time  the  books  had 
been  embossed  directly  from  forms  of  hand-set  mov- 
able type  or  from  heavy  stereotyped  plates  cast  from 
them.  Such  plates  not  only  gave  unsatisfactory  im- 
pression, but  they  were  costly  and  so  bulky  as  to 
make  impracticable  the  storing  of  the  number  that 
was  bound  to  accumulate.  Mr.  Reardon  substituted 
light  and  thin  shells  of  copper  electrotyped  on 
plumbago-coated  moulds  obtained  by  impressing  the 
type  forms  in  wax,  which  shells,  after  being  filled  in 
on  the  reverse  side  with  melted  tin  and  rubbed  flat 
and  smooth,  became  permanent  plates.  By  such 
substitution  he  not  only  secured  cheaper  and  better 
plates  but  also  overcame  the  serious  problem  of  their 
storage.  Mr.  Reardon  thus  brought  about  an  epoch 
in  the  history  of  our  printing. 

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Up  to  this  time  he  had  been  receiving  but  small 
wages  for  his  services,  preferring  indeed  not  to  be 
paid  more.  Before  his  marriage,  which  took  place 
in  1890,  he  had  once  or  twice  refused  to  take  his 
quarterly  payment  for  services,  saying  that  he  didn't 
need  the  money  as  much  as  the  institution  did.  But 
when  later  the  trustees  learned  that  he  was  about 
to  marry,  they  voted  him  a  salary  which  was  prac- 
tically double  what  he  had  been  receiving.  This 
action  was  obviously  in  recognition  of  his  great  and 
increasing  value  to  the  institution.  In  those  days 
and  for  a  long  time  subsequently  it  was  the  custom 
of  the  officers  of  the  Perkins  Institution  to  defray 
their  own  expenses  in  traveling  about,  even  though 
on  institution  business.  As  Mr.  Reardon  assumed 
more  and  more  outside  duties  he  went  about  the  city 
a  great  deal,  and  although  he  usually  took  a  guide 
along,  he  paid  all  carfares  for  both  and  never  was 
known  to  collect  for  expenses.  When  asked,  as  he 
was,  why  he  did  this,  he  replied:  ''Oh,  carfares  are 
so  little  to  give  in  comparison  with  what  the  insti- 
tution has  done  for  me." 

A  former  steward,  Anthony  Bowden,  had  pre- 
viously been  Dr.  Howe's  and  Mr.  Anagnos's  factotum, 
—  goodnatured,  willing,  businesslike,  capable.  He 
had  been  trade  instructor,  manager  of  the  workshop, 
carpenter  and  builder,  collector  of  rents,  and  general 
purchaser  of  all  kinds  of  supplies,  carrying  out  more 
or  less  of  these  at  once.  As  he  grew  older  Mr. 
Reardon  gradually  relieved  him  of  first  one  and  then 

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another  of  his  duties;  was  eager  to  do  so,  since  he  too 
was  indefatigable.  Mr.  Reardon  had  one  of  the  most 
retentive  memories  that  ever  was.  Nothing  escaped 
him  that  he  once  knew,  —  the  dates  and  other  details 
of  history,  especially  of  the  campaigns  of  Napoleon, 
whom  he  admired,  the  street  and  telephone  numbers 
of  business  houses  with  which  he  dealt,  the  ages  and 
birthdays  of  friends,  the  story  of  the  Perkins  Institu- 
tion in  intimate  detail,  and  the  careers  of  its  past 
pupils,  —  anything  and  everything,  in  short,  stuck  in 
his  mind  which  thus  became  a  prodigious  storehouse 
of  facts  for  us  all  to  call  on  at  any  time.  When  five 
years  ago  Miss  Lane,  the  institution's  former  libra- 
rian and  proofreader,  was  compiling  a  history  of  the 
Howe  Memorial  Press,  this  memory  of  its  manager 
was  of  extraordinary  help. 

Goldsmith's  lines  come  naturally  to  mind,  — 

The  more  they  gazed  the  more  the  wonder  grew 
That  one  small  head  could  carry  all  he  knew. 

His  thirst  for  precise  information  on  all  practical 
matters  was  voracious.  Banking  on  what  he  had 
learned  while  surveying  in  Texas  and  carpentering 
in  Michigan,  he  quizzed  Mr.  Bowden  in  detail  as  to 
building  plans  and  draughting,  and  being  gifted  with 
clear  perceptions  and  the  power  of  accurate  visual- 
ization, he  began  planning  for  the  little  new  struc- 
tures that  the  institution  came  to  need.  In  prepara- 
tion he  read  technical  works  on  building  operations, 
pestered  his  practical  friends  with  all  manner  of 

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questions  on  the  details,  say  of  plumbing,  gasfitting, 
stone  masonry,  etc.  —  everything,  in  short,  that 
went  into  house  construction,  until  he  was  able  to 
draw  up  complete  building  specifications.  Having 
proved  his  ability  entirely  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
Director,  his  services  were  eagerly  utilized,  since  they 
cost  the  institution  nothing  and  were  sure  to  result 
in  better,  more  thorough  and  more  understanding 
work  than  an  outsider  would  be  likely  to  plan  for. 
At  first,  in  order  to  make  clear  to  a  draughtsman 
what  was  wanted,  he  would  lay  out  his  floor  plans 
in  large  movable  type  and  quads  on  a  marble-top 
table.  From  this  either  his  clerk  or  the  draughtsman 
in  the  usual  way  would  draw  the  outlines  to  scale, 
following  Mr.  Reardon's  detailed  specifications,  dic- 
tated then  and  there  out  of  his  head.  Sometimes 
the  lines  would  be  made  tangible  with  a  spurred 
wheel,  or  double  lines  would  be  sized  and  sanded  for 
finger  verification,  and  the  whole  thing  proved  by 
these  means  true  and  right.  Elevations  the  blind 
man  could  neither  draw  nor  feel  but  he  could  image 
them  to  his  clear  seeing  inner  eye,  and  he  did  so, 
talking  over  every  sort  of  detail.  He  then  dictated 
it  all  to  his  clerk,  even  the  details  of  inside  equip- 
ment and  furnishing,  —  ventilating  flues,  supporting 
beams,  square  feet  of  heating  surfaces  required, 
electric  wiring,  bookcases,  etc.,  etc.;  and  when  every- 
thing was  ready  would  call  for  estimates  of  cost, 
knowing  with  remarkable  accuracy  what  this  cost 
ought  to  be,  and,  with  the  Director's  approval,  would 

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give  out  the  contract.  No  superintendent  of  con- 
struction, or  "clerk  of  the  works,"  was  needed;  Mr. 
Reardon  was  that,  too.  With  cane  in  hand  he  used 
to  make  frequent  visits  to  the  house  under  con- 
struction and  so  keep  in  touch  with  it  all.  It  was 
not  easy  for  a  tricky  contractor  to  shut  his  eye  up, 
and  the  thing  was  seldom  attempted.  In  this  way 
he  became  responsible  for  a  cottage  and  the  large 
school  building  for  the  girls'  department,  for  the 
extension  of  one  wing  of  the  main  institution,  for  its 
great  gymnasium,  library,  museum  and  service  build- 
ing, for  some  forty-nine  dwellings  to  be  rented,  and 
for  all  the  buildings  of  the  Kindergarten  at  Jamaica 
Plain,  and  he  had  ready  the  complete  plan  for  the 
great  central  structure  of  that  department,  which 
was  never  completed.  He  was  also  the  responsible 
architect  of  several  houses  which  he  built  for  himself, 
and  of  the  Greek  Church  in  Boston.  The  cost  of 
all  these  structures  ran  up  into  the  hundreds  of 
thousands.  Recognition  of  Mr.  Reardon's  ability  is 
given  in  The  American  Architect  and  Building  News, 
Boston,  Mass.,  Jan.  19, 1895.  But  what  self  reliance, 
what  confidence,  what  courage  it  must  have  taken 
to  be  willing  to  shoulder  so  much  responsibility! 

All  the  while  Mr.  Reardon  was  doing  these  things 
he  was  also  carrying  on  his  printing  with  its  sales 
department,  attending  to  the  necessary  painting  of 
the  whole  institution  and  to  building  repairs  of  every 
kind  and  character,  inside  and  outside,  both  for  the 
institution  and  for  the  renters;    he  was  hiring  and 

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Dennis  Alvin  Reardon. 


managing  the  men,  contracting  for  the  coal  and 
other  suppHes  except  food;  in  short,  he  had  become 
the  Director's  factotum.  Indeed,  he  was  eminently 
more  practical  and  possessed  a  clearer  understanding 
of  the  details  of  business  interests  of  the  institution 
than  any  of  its  three  directors,  whose  attention  was 
thus  released  for  other  matters.  The  trustees  al- 
lowed him  to  let  those  of  its  houses  and  stores  which 
were  so  used  and,  at  one  time,  to  arrange  for  the 
insurance  of  all  its  buildings.  The  Treasurer  con- 
sulted him  frequently,  for  he  relied  upon  his  sound 
judgment  in  all  matters  of  real  estate.  Since  Mr. 
Reardon's  death  all  such  outside  matters  have  been 
put  into  the  hands  of  a  paid  Treasurer's  assistant. 

Mr.  Reardon's  office  was  in  his  printing  depart- 
ment. There  he  could  be  interrupted  whenever 
found;  it  would  not  matter,  for  whatever  he  hap- 
pened to  be  doing,  he  could  take  up  his  clue  again 
without  break.  There  teacher  or  pupil  could  find 
him  and  always  reckon  on  obtaining  his  advice  and 
help.  He  had  a  level  head  and  a  kind  heart,  so  that 
everyone  about  the  place  came  to  depend  and  rely 
on  his  advice  and  sympathy. 

Strange  to  say,  his  judgment  in  his  own  behalf  was 
more  apt  to  go  wrong  than  in  another's.  He  was  by 
nature  and  temperament  over-sanguine  and  opti- 
mistic. He  made  several  bad  investments.  He 
trusted  others  and  through  others  finally  lost  all  that 
he  possessed  of  money.  However,  his  friends,  who 
at  first  urged  him  to  go  into  bankruptcy,  which  he 

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declined  to  do,  loaned  him  more  money,  but  he  was 
never  able  to  repay  them  wholly,  as  he  fully  expected 
to  be  able  to  do.  It  was  in  the  service  of  the  institu- 
tion and  of  the  blind  that  he  was  cautious  and  sure 
before  going  ahead.  So  confident  were  the  blind  in 
his  good  judgment  that  it  was  quite  the  usual  thing 
for  individuals  and  societies  of  them  to  consult  him 
in  matters  of  business.  The  Perkins  Alumni  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  was  a  member,  valued  his  coopera- 
tion most  heartily.  The  Perkins  Alumnae  Association 
became  particularly  grateful  for  the  assistance  he  was 
able  to  give  it  and  stated  officially  at  the  time  of  his 
death  that  'Ho  find  one  who  will  so  thoroughly 
understand  the  demands  and  needs  of  the  sightless 
people  will  hardly  be  possible  in  this  generation." 
When  the  Howe  Memorial  Club,  an  organization  of 
present  and  former  boys  of  the  institution  was  estab- 
lished in  1900,  partly  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the 
worthy  blind,  its  funds  were  put  in  Mr.  Reardon's 
hands  as  trustee,  and  he  was  made  a  member  of  the 
loan  committee;  for  it  was  realized  that  there  was 
no  one  so  well  fitted  as  he  to  guard  and  lend  the 
moneys  accumulated  and  accumulating.  And  he 
remained  their  trustee  until  shortly  before  his  death. 
Again,  when  a  fellow  Perkins  pupil  of  his  died,  leaving 
$10,000,  it  was  found  in  his  will  that  the  sum  had 
been  left  to  Mr.  Reardon  and  two  other  men  as 
trustees  both  to  invest  the  principal  and  to  give  out 
the  interest  annually  in  small  sums  as  spending  money 
to  each  and  every  pupil  in  attendance  at  the  Perkins 

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Institution.  This  ''Blaisdell  Fund,"  so-called,  has 
thus  continued  for  fifteen  years  in  the  sole  charge  of 
Mr.  Reardon,  as  surviving  executor.  It  yields  a 
dollar  to  each  boy  and  girl  on  Lincoln's  Birthday,  a 
holiday  which  everyone  naturally  appreciates  the 
more,  and  $15  apiece  to  each  pupil  at  the  time  of  his 
graduation. 

Mr.  Reardon  loved  to  listen  to  good  reading.  His 
wife  read  to  him  most  of  the  standard  novels  and 
many  a  history.  He  kept  up  with  the  times  through 
the  daily  newspaper.  He  himself  had  excellent 
command  of  the  English  language.  His  spoken 
orders  were  clear  and  precise;  his  letters  and  written 
reports  cogent  and  telling.  He  once  dictated  and 
hoped  to  pubhsh  a  novel  named  "  Clarence  Maxwell," 
which  was  largely  an  autobiographical  account  of 
his  wanderings  and  experiences  when  he  could  see. 
But  his  chief  avocation  when  alone  was  contriving 
and  inventing  or,  as  he  used  to  say,  "winding  wire." 
A  great  social  resource  was  euchre  playing,  which 
he  indulged  in  with  almost  the  same  people  every 
Friday  evening  for  many  years  together.  He  excelled 
at  the  game  and,  had  not  a  limit  of  time  been  set  for 
playing,  he  would  gladly  have  continued  it  all  night. 
And  so  with  vocation  and  avocation  alike  satisfied 
at  South  Boston,  he  seldom  went  ten  miles  away 
from  the  institution  but  was  on  duty  there  each  day 
and  night  for  every  day  and  night  in  the  year  and 
for  over  forty  years.  Was  not  this  a  useful  life 
indeed? 

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He  was  independent  in  religion  and  politics. 
Being  absolutely  fearless,  no  one  could  convince  him 
of  anything  against  his  own  judgment.  And  yet  he 
was  modest  and  gentle.  All  children  loved  him  and 
went  naturally  to  him.  He  was  a  kind  husband 
and  father. 

After  many  years  of  such  constant  brain  activity 
as  Mr.  Reardon  carried  and  of  responsibility  which 
he  courted  and  craved,  it  was  not  unnatural  that 
having  chronic  kidney  trouble  during  his  last  years 
he  should  have  finally  died  of  a  shock  at  the  com- 
paratively early  age  of  sixty-nine  years.  Though 
splendid  things  were  said  of  him  at  his  funeral,  which 
many  of  us  will  remember,  it  is  more  than  fitting 
that  some  record  of  his  character  and  achievement 
should  be  preserved,  not  so  much  in  recognition  of 
them,  for  he  had  that  in  abundance  while  living  and 
satisfaction  in  the  knowledge  that  when  dead  his 
widow  and  son  would  not  be  forgotten  by  the  insti- 
tution, but  in  virtue  of  the  effect  his  personality 
and  achievements  should  have  on  others. 

None  but  the  blind  can  know  what  the  full  realiza- 
tion of  the  dependence  of  blindness  means.  But  it 
is  this  knowledge  which  so  often  makes  of  life  a 
tragedy.  Dennis  Reardon  might  have  gone  down 
in  darkness  and  defeat,  and  few  would  have  blamed 
him  for  it.  He  knew  he  had  been  inefficient  enough 
while  drifting  about  as  a  seeing  man.  But  he  chose 
when  blind  to  make  himself  acceptable,  efficient, 
needed  at  his  alma  mater,  and  of  definite  worth  to 

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the  world;    and  therefore  we  acclaim  him  a  hero. 

For  him  there  was  to  be  no  such  thing  as  defeat 

because  he  was  blind.     No,  indeed.     He  would  make 

his  life  one  of  loyalty  and  gratitude,  and  efficiency; 

and  he  did  it. 

EDWARD  E.  ALLEN. 


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1832-1916. 

GRADUATING   EXERCISES   OF   THE    PERKINS   INSTITU- 
TION AND  MASSACHUSETTS  SCHOOL 
FOR  THE  BLIND. 

Thubsday,  June  29,  1916,  10.30\.m. 

Program. 

Chorus,  "Prayer  of  Thanksgiving  "  (Netherland  Folk  Song),    Kremner 

Essay,  What  the  Theatre  Has  Meant  to  Me,   Annie  Augusta  Hamilton 

Pianoforte,  Novelette  in  F, Schumann 

Helen  May  Irwin 
Essay,  Camp  Fire  Gu-ls,        ....        Ruth  Katherine  Billow 
Songs: 

(a)  "Impatience," Schubert 

(6)  "Faith  in  Spring," Schubert 

Marian  Loretta  Noonan 
Essay,  Our  Bird  Friends,       ....  Muriel  Crossley  Anderson 
Pianoforte,  Two  Consolations  in  E  Major,         ....        Liszt 

Marie  Agnes  McGill 
Essay,  Progress  in  Agricultural  Machinery,        .     Paul  Aloysius  Tobin 

Organ,  Prelude  and  Fugue  in  D  Minor, Bach 

Adrian  Paul  Salesses 
Essay,  The  National  Game,  .       .       .      Thomas  Thompson  McBride 

Address, Rev.  Francis  E.  Webster 

Presentation  of  Diplomas  and  Certificates. 

Chorus,  "The  Twenty-third  Psahn," Neidlinger 


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Graduates  of  the  Class  of  1916. 


Muriel  Crossley  Anderson. 
Ruth  Katherine  Billow. 
Annie  Augusta  Hamilton. 
Helen  May  Irwin. 


Thomas  Thompson  McBride. 
Marie  Agnes  McGill. 
Marian  Loretta  Noonan. 
Adrian  Paul  Salesses. 


Paul  Aloysius  Tobin, 

Pianoforte  Normal  Departmei^. 
Flora  Mabel  Parcher. 

Plvnoforte  Tuning  Department. 
Joseph  Patrick  Devine.  |  Herman  Martin  Immeln. 

Peter  Joseph  Salmon. 

Class  Colors:  Blue  and  Gold.  Class  Flower:  LUy  of  the  Valley. 

Class  Motto:  Spectemur  agendo. 


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EIGHTH  ANNUAL  CONCERT 

By  the  Choir  of  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts 

School  for  the  Blind 

IN  the  Assembly  Hall  of  the  School  at  Watertown, 

Monday  Evening,  May  15,  1916, 

AT  8.15  o'clock. 

The  Program. 

Messe  Solennelle, Gounod 

Hymn  to  the  Madonna, Kremser-Spicker 

The  Resurrection, Stanford 

The  choir  has  the  assistance  of 
Miss  Josephine  Knight,  Soprani. 
Mr.  J.  Garfield  Stone,  Tenor. 
Mr.  Frederic  Cutter,  Bass. 

Trumpets  Horns 

Mr.  Walter  Smith  Mr.  M.  De  Yeso. 

Mr.  S.  B.  Moore.  Mr.  G.  M.  Holmes. 

Miss  Bacon,  Pianist         ] 
Mr.  Hartwell,  Organist  \  of  the  Faculty. 
Mr.  Gardiner,  Director 


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 


I.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Concerts,    Recitals    and 

Plays. 

To  Major  Henry  Lee  Higginson,  through  Mr.  C.  A. 
Ellis,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  course  of  symphony  concerts 
in  Sanders  Theatre,  Cambridge. 

To  Mr.  Hiram  G.  Tucker,  for  thirty  tickets  for  the  ora- 
torio "The  Messiah,"  given  by  the  Handel  and  Haydn 
Society. 

To  Mr.  Charles  Gordon  Whitcomb,  for  a  general  invi- 
tation to  a  concert  by  Whitcomb's  Concert  Band  in  Tremont 
Temple. 

To  Mr.  William  H.  Palmer,  treasurer,  for  fifteen  tickets 
for  a  concert  by  the  Cecilia  Society. 

To  Miss  Harriet  Littell  and  Mr.  Albert  R.  Thayer, 
for  sixteen  tickets  for  a  concert  by  the  Russian  Music 
Society. 

To  Mr.  Frank  M.  Davis,  for  a  general  invitation  to  a 
two-piano  recital  by  Messrs.  Cyril  and  Cecil  Brigham. 

To  the  Copley  Square  School  of  Music,  for  fourteen 
tickets  for  its  Holiday  Concert. 

To  Miss  Bertha  E.  Mahoney,  assistant  secretary  of  the 
Children's  Players  Department  of  the  Women's  Educational 
and  Industrial  Union,  for  twelve  tickets  for  the  three  plays 
given  through  the  "Portmanteau  Theatre." 

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To  Mrs.  Lyman  W.  Gale,  for  a  general  invitation  to  the 
play,  "A  Place  in  the  Sun,"  at  the  Toy  Theatre. 

To  Mr.  L.  W.  KiLBOURN,  for  tickets  for  a  concert  by  the 
Blind  Men's  Benefit  Association. 

II.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Recitals    and    Lectures 

IN  OUR  Hall. 

To  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  for  a  talk  on  his  travels  through 
Egypt,  China  and  Japan. 

To  Prof.  E.  Charlton  Black,  for  a  lecture  on  "Shakes- 
peare, the  man,  and  what  we  know  about  his  personality." 

To  Prof.  Marshall  L.  Perrin,  for  a  lecture  on  "Sahara." 

To  Prof.  W.  J.  Sly  of  Colorado,  for  story-telling. 

To  Miss  Dora  L.  Kirwin,  reader,  and  Miss  Mabel  A. 
Starbird,  singer,  for  an  entertainment. 

To  Mr.  William  Strong,  for  a  pianoforte  recital. 

To  Mme.  Alberti,  for  a  vocal  recital. 

To  Miss  Esther  Worden,  for  a  reading  of  "Little  Sir 
Galahad." 

To  Mr.  Nixon  Waterman,  for  readings  from  his  own 
writings. 

III.  —  Acknowledgments    for    Periodicals    and    News- 

papers. 
American  Annals  of  the  Deaf,  California  News,  Christian 
Record  (embossed).  Christian  Register,  Christian  Science 
Journal,  Christian  Science  Sentinel,  Colorado  Index,  Illu- 
minator (embossed),  McClure's  Magazine,  Matilda  Zeigler 
Magazine  for  the  Blind  (embossed),  the  Mentor,  Michigan 
Mirror,  New  England  Journal  of  Education,  Ohio  Chronicle, 
Our  Dumb  Animals,  The  Silent  Worker,  the  Theosophical 
Path,  the  Well-Spring,  West  Virginia  Tablet,  Woman's 
Journal,  Yale  Review,  Youth's  Companion. 

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IV.  —  Acknowledgments  for  Gifts  and  Services. 

Dr.  Henry  Hawkins  and  Dr.  Harold  B.  Chandler,  for 
professional  services. 

Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary, 
Boston  City  Hospital,  and  Psychopathic  Department 
OF  Boston  State  Hospital,  for  care  and  treatment  of  pupils. 

Mrs.  Larz  Anderson,  Mrs.  Walter  C.  Baylies,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Atwood,  Miss  Flora  Blanchard,  Mr.  Walter 
Learned,  in  memory  of  Miss  Mary  C.  Learned,  and  the 
Ladies'  Visiting  Committee  to  the  Kindergarten,  for 
gifts  of  money. 

Mrs.  William  C.  Loring,  for  a  pianola  with  records. 

Miss  L.  O.  Everett,  for  a  Braille  writer  and  a  Braille  slate. 

Mrs.  E.  Preble  Motley,  Mrs.  John  Chipman  Gray,  Mrs. 
David  A.  Evans,  Mr.  Frank  W.  McLaughlin,  Miss  Fran- 
ces Ehrlich  and  Miss  Rosalind  Kornfeld,  for  fruit,  ice 
cream,  confectionery,  cake  and  crackers. 

Mrs.  Samuel  D.  Waxman  and  Miss  Annette  Morris, 
for  dolls. 

Mr.  Shepherd  Brooks,  for  a  music  box. 

Mrs.  David  A.  Evans,  Mrs.  Louis  Rosenbaum,  Miss 
Eleanor  Therese  Hart,  a  Sunday  School  class  of  Temple 
Israel,  Mr.  Reed,  and  Mr.  M.  Elmer  Smith,  for  parties, 
sociables  and  entertainments  for  the  pupils. 

Mrs.  Rosenbaum  and  Mrs.  P.  J.  Marks,  for  clothing. 

Miss  Ellen  Bullard  and  Miss  Emilie  Poulsson,  for 
pictures. 

Mr.  Percy  Andreae  and  the  Christian  Science  Pub- 
lishing Company,  for  books. 

Mr.  William  Edgar,  for  plants  from  his  greenhouse. 

The  Watertown  Free  Public  Library,  for  unbound 
copies  of  the  Readers'  Guide  for  1915-1916. 

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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE  UPPER  SCHOOL. 


Abbott,  Josephine  E. 
Adomaitis,  Elsie. 
Anderson,  Esther  M. 
Andrews,  Hattie  M. 
Benoit,  Josephine. 
Blake,  Clarissa  H. 
Bolton,  Gladys  M. 
Boone,  Florence  M. 
Brannick,  Elizabeth. 
Burnham,  Ruth  E. 
Chesson,  Marion. 
Coffey,  Angela  L. 
Cohen,  Alice. 
Collins,  Veronica. 
Cross,  Helen  A. 
Davenport,  Anna  A. 
Doucha,  Armen. 
Drake,  Helena  M. 
Dufresne,  Irene. 
Elder,  Gladys  M. 
Farnsworth,  Esther  M. 
Fetherstone,  Mae  E. 
Fisk,  Mattie  E.  L. 
Flynn,  Marie  E. 
French,  Agnes  G. 
Gadbois,  Roselma. 
Gagnon,  Albertina. 
Galvin,  Margaret  L. 
Gorman,  Marie  T. 
Graham,  Marguerite  A. 
Gray,  Nettie  C. 


Guild,  Bertha  H. 
Guiney,  Julia. 
Howard,  Lily  B. 
Irwin,  Helen  M. 
Jackson,  Harriet  B. 
Kimball,  Blanche  E. 
Kimball,  Eleanor. 
Lagerstrom,  Ellen  M. 
Levesque,  Mary  A. 
Linscott,  Jennie  M. 
Ljungren,  Elizabeth. 
Locuson,  Agnes  S. 
MacEachran,  Catherine. 
MacPherson,  Mary  H. 
Marceau,  Yvonne. 
Martin,  Lea. 
Martin,  Libby. 
Matthews,  Edith  M. 
McGill,  Marie. 
Menard,  Angelina. 
Minahan,  Annie  E. 
Montgomery,  Ethel  A. 
Najarian,  Nevart. 
Noonan,  M.  Loretta. 
Olsen,  Mabel  T. 
O'Neil,  Annie. 
Perault,  Yvonne  A. 
Perry,  Gertrude. 
Ross,  Lena. 
Rowe,  Margaret  C. 
Samson,  Bertha. 


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Sibley,  Marian  C. 
Siebert,  Bessie  L. 
Spencer,  Olive  E. 
Stevens,  Gladys  L. 
Stewart,  Alice  L. 
Terry,  Annie  B. 
Thompson,  Mary. 
Turner,  Sadie. 
Uhrig,  Mary  G. 
Vilaine,  Mary  C. 
Wallockstein,  Annie. 
Welch,  Ellen. 
Wilson,  R.  Edris. 
Wood,  Adeline  H. 
Abbott,  Charles  A. 
Baskin,  Morris  H. 
Beavon,  Burton. 
Blair,  Herman  A. 
Bonasera,  Joseph. 
Brooks,  Harold  D. 
Brown,  A.  Stanley. 
Buck,  Arthur  B. 
Clarke,  Jerold  P. 
Cobb,  Malcolm  L. 
Cooney,  John. 
Copeland,  James  M. 
Craig,  Edward  J. 
Crowell,  Arthur  A. 
Culprizio,  John. 
Cushman,  Ralph. 
Depoian,  Hrant  G. 
Dibble,  Vernon  C. 
Dow,  Basil  E. 
Duffy,  Eugene  J. 
Durfee,  Sidney  B. 
Eastwood,  Thomas  J. 
Evans,  Robert  B. 
Ferguson,  Milton  W. 
Ferris,  Sumner  S. 
Ferron,  Homer. 


Fournier,  Eugene. 
Friberg,  Ina  J. 
Fulton,  James. 
Gagnon,  Albert. 
Ginsberg,  Aaron. 
Gould,  Francis  E. 
Greene,  George. 
Haggerty,  Frederick. 
Hanley,  Thomas  A. 
Healy,  Millard  A. 
Holmberg,  Arvid  N. 
Howard,  Thomas. 
Hoxsie,  Asa  T. 
Inglis,  John  S. 
Jacobs,  David  L. 
Jameson,  Paul  L. 
Jenkins,  Edward  W. 
Johnson,  Emil. 
Kelly,  Robert  E. 
Liberacki,  Edward. 
Mack,  Francis  J. 
McBride,  Thomas  T. 
McLaughlin,  Lloyd  H. 
Medeiros,  Joseph. 
Moran,  Francis. 
Munn,  Daniel  J. 
Oliver,  Joseph. 
Phelps,  L  Walter. 
Porter,  Raymond  L. 
Quirk,  Arthur  L. 
Rasmussen,  Lewis  A. 
Read,  J.  Elmer. 
Reeves,  W.  Stanley. 
Roberts,  Chester  N. 
Ryan,  Frank. 
Salesses,  Adrian  P. 
Schoner,  Emil. 
Sharp,  William  F. 
Sliney,  Maurice. 
Spence,  Samuel  J. 


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Stellaty,  Alberte. 
Stone,  Walter  C. 
Sullivan,  John  J. 
Tansey,  Frederick. 
Tobin,  Paul. 
Vance,  Alvin  L. 


Walker,  Roger  T. 
Ward,  Frederick. 
Weaver,  John  J. 
Wieczek,  John. 
Wilcox,  J.  Earl. 
Zalolsky,  Hyman. 


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LIST  OF  PUPILS  AT  THE   LOWER  SCHOOL. 


Baker,  Elsie. 
Bazarian,  Mary. 
Bessette,  Vedora. 
Bosma,  Gelske. 
Brooks,  Madeline  D. 
Brown,  Dorothy  M. 
Butler,  Alice  May. 
Byrne,  Genevieve. 
Cassavaugh,  Nellie  J. 
Coakley,  Alice  L. 
Cohen,  Ruth. 
Colaizzi,  Josephine. 
Connors,  Margaret. 
Costa,  Marianna. 
Cox,  Annie  E. 
Davis,  Mary. 
Davis,  Ruth  M. 
De  Dominicis,  Edith. 
Demers,  Germaine  M. 
Doyle,  Mary  E. 
Elliott,  Ethel  S. 
Elliott,  Mary. 
Ferrarini,  Yolande. 
Flanagan,  M.  Ursula. 
Freeman,  Edith  M. 
Gilbert,  Eva  V. 
Goff,  Eva. 
Grent,  Josephine. 
Hanley,  Mary. 
Haswell,  Thelma  R. 
Hilton,  Charlotte. 
Hinckley,  Dorothy  M. 


Ingersoll,  Dorothy. 
Jefferson,  Annie. 
Keefe,  Mildred. 
Kelley,  Beulah  C. 
Lanoue,  Edna. 
Lanoue,  Helen. 
McGovern,  Velma. 
McMeekin,  Jennie. 
Miles,  Winifred  M. 
Minutti,  Desaleina. 
Murphy,  Ellen. 
O'Neil,  Charlotte. 
Poirier,  Delina  M. 
Pond,  Flora  E. 
Ramsey,  Mildred  M. 
Rapoza,  Evangeline  S. 
Riley,  Helen  I. 
Rose,  Sadie. 
Rousseau,  Lillian. 
Sannicandro,  Josephine. 
Santos,  Emily. 
Savage,  Mary. 
Shea,  Mary  E. 
Simmons,  Bertha, 
Skipp,  Doris  M. 
Stutwoota,  Mary. 
Thebeau,  Marie. 
Weathers,  Dorothy. 
Wheeler,  Theresa. 
Wilcox,  Bertha  M. 
Witham,  Beatrice  L. 


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Antonucci,  Alberto. 
Caisse,  George  T. 
Conley,  Edward. 
Costa,  Manuel. 
Cullen,  George  F. 
Cullen,  William. 
Curley,  Joseph  H. 
Deslauries,  Laurence. 
Donovan,  Kenneth  J. 
Dugal,  J.  Ernest. 
Eaton,  Charles  P. 
Egan,  John  P. 
Epaminonda,  John. 
Fingerhut,  George  C. 
Gagnon,  Lionel. 
Goguen,  Raoul. 
Gomes,  Sebastian. 
Gray,  Wales  H. 
Grime,  G.  Edward. 
Hanaford,  Clarence  E. 
Holmes,  Rutherford  B. 
Houle,  Walter. 
Katwick,  Arthur  D. 
Keefe,  Clarence  G. 
Kelleher,  Thomas  A. 
Lamagdeleine,  Armand. 
Laminan,  Oiva. 
Laminan,  Toivo. 
Libby,  Arthur  C. 
MacGinnis,  Raymond  L. 
Maloney,  Everett  S. 
Matsson,  Harry  N. 


Maziall,  J.  Herbert. 
McDonald,  Edmond  J. 
McEachern,  Donald  M. 
McGillicuddy,  John. 
Mennassian,  Souran. 
Morse,  Kenneth. 
Navarra,  Gaspere. 
Nelson,  Ralph  R. 
Noble,  Clark  W. 
Oldham,  Milner. 
O'Neil,  John. 
O'Neill,  Ralph  L. 
Pacheco,  Frank  V. 
Paquette,  Armel. 
Pearlstein,  David. 
Peavey,  Francis  P. 
Perreault,  J.  Edward. 
Perry,  Emerson  C. 
Philpot,  William  R. 
Rego,  Peter. 
Rubin,  Manual. 
St.  George,  William. 
Silva,  Arthur  P. 
Silvera,  Manuel. 
Simoneau,  Henry  J. 
Slaby,  Peter  J. 
Spencer,  Merton  S. 
Thibeault,  Arthur. 
Thibeault,  Joseph. 
Ward,  Leroy  M. 
Wesson,  Kermit  O. 


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SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THOMAS  STRINGER. 


From  September  1,  1915,  to  August  31,  1916. 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B $50  00 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 5  00 

Sohier,  Miss  Mary  D 25  00 


$80  00 


Permanent  Fund  for  Thomas  Stringer. 

[This  fund  is  being  raised  with  the  distinct  xinderstanding  that 
it  is  to  be  placed  under  the  control  and  care  of  the  trustees  of  the 
Perkins  Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  and 
that  only  the  net  income  is  to  be  given  to  Tom  so  long  as  he  is  not 
provided  for  in  any  other  way,  and  is  unable  to  earn  his  living,  the 
principal  remaining  intact  forever.  It  is  further  understood,  that, 
at  his  death,  or  when  he  ceases  to  be  in  need  of  this  assistance,  the 
income  of  this  fund  is  to  be  applied  to  the  support  and  education 
of  some  child  who  is  both  blind  and  deaf  and  for  whom  there  is  no 
provision  made  either  by  the  state  or  by  private  individuals.] 

A  friend, $50  00 

Brown,  Mrs.  J.  Conldin,  Berkeley,  Cal 50  00 

Income  from  the  Glover  Fund,         .......  100  00 

Seabury,  Miss  Sarah  E., 500  00 

$700  OOi 


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STATEMENT 


Messrs.  Warren  Motley,  F.  H.  Appleton,  Jr.,  Auditors,  Perkins  Institution 

Gentlemen  :  —  We   hereby   certify  that  the   following  statements  of  the 
August  31,  1916. 


Statements  of  William  Endicott,  Treasurer  of  the  Perkins 

Year  ending 


Institution  Account. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31, 1915 $21,357  83 

Donations,  legacies  and  New  England  States,     ....  §63,230  90 

Miscellaneous  income, 13,867  86 

Income  from  investments,     .        .        .        .        .        .        .         .  31,736  65 

Kindergarten  and  Howe  Memorial  Press]  Fund,  adjusting  main- 
tenance, administrative  and  management  expense  accounts,    .  34,611  34 

Works  Department 31,305  93 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 48,651  85 

—    223,404  53 


$244,762  36 


Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund  Account. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1915, $3,644  19 

Miscellaneous  income, $1,434  04 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 5,002  40 

Income  from  investments, 10,542  40 

16,978  84 


$20,623  03 


Kindergarten  Account. 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1915,  ..." $25,930  49 

Donations,  legacies  and  New  England  States,      ....  $37,020  57 

Miscellaneous  income, 2,335  54 

Income  from  investments,      ........  65,995  30 

Securities  sold  and  matured, 97,795  48 

Mortgage  notes, 25,000  00 

Loans 60,000  00 

Interest  on  loans, 5,157  91 

293,304  80 


$319,235  29 


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OF  ACCOUNTS. 

Boston,  November  Sixth,  1916. 

and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  Watertown,  Massachusetts. 

Treasurer  correctly  show  the  income  and  expenditures  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 

Respectfully  submitted, 

EDWIN  L.  PRIDE  AND   CO.     (Incorporated), 
By  Edwin  L.  Pride, 

Certified  Public  Accountant. 

Institution  and  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  for  the 
August  31,  1916. 

Institution  Account. 
Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director $147,300  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1915, 2,241  52 

$149,541  52 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916, 13  17 

$149,528  35 

Miscellaneous  expenses, $3,130  72 

Maintenance, 734  49 

Invested, 12,870  00 

Loans 60,000  00 

Interest  on  loans 2,517  91 

79,253  12 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1916, 15,980  89 

$244,762  36 

Howe  Memorial  Pbess  Fund  Account. 

Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director $7,425  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1915, 268  48 

$7,693  48 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916, 20  13 

$7,673  35 

Miscellaneous  expenses, $195  05 

New  Printing  Plant,  Watertown, 571  74 

Invested, 11,170  00 

11,936  79 

Balance  on  hand  August  31,  1916 1,012  89 

$20,623  03 

KiNDEKGARTEN   ACCOUNT. 

Expenditures. 

Drafts  to  director $63,350  00 

Add  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1915, 1,126  14 

$64,476  14 
Less  unexpended  balance  August  31,  1916 52  62 

$64,423  52 

Miscellaneous  expenses, $4,571  44 

Maintenance,  ...........  247  25 

Invested 184,973  87 

Mortgage  notes 55,000  00 

Interest  on  loans, 794  43 

245,586  99 

Balance  on  hand,  August  31,  1916, 9,224  78 


$319,235  29 


WILLIAM   ENDICOTT,  Treasurer. 

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The  following  represents  the  funds  and  balances  of  the 
Institution :  — 


General  funds  of  the  Institution, 
Stephen  Fairbanks  fund, 

Harris  fund, 

Richard  Perkins  fund, 
Stoddard  Capen  fund, 
In  memoriam,  Mortimer  C.  Ferris, 
Miss  Harriet  Otis  Cruft  fund,     . 
Frank  Davison  Rust  fund,  . 
Marj^  Lowell  Stone  fund,     . 
Maria  Kemble  Oliver  fund, 
Accrued  interest  on  $3,000,     . 


Legacies:  — 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  B.  Bailey, 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 

Calvin  W.  Barker, 

Miss  Lucy  A.  Barker,  . 

Francis  Bartlett,    . 

Miss  Mar>'  Bartol, 

Thompson  Baxter, 

Robert  C.  Billings, 

Robert  C.  Billings  (for  deaf 

Susan  A.  Blaisdell, 

William  T.  Bolton, 

George  Vv\  Boyd,  . 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee, 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet, 

J.  Edward  Brown, 

T.  O.  H.  P.  Bumham, 

Mrs.  Ann  Eliza  Colbum, 

David  E.  Cummings,    . 

I.  W.  Danforth, 

Susan  L.  Davis, 

Joseph  Descalzo, 
John  W.  Dix, 

Mary  E.  Eaton, 
Martha  A.  French 
Thomas  Gaffield, 
Albert  Glover, 
Joseph  B.  Glover  (for  deaf 
Joseph  B.  Glover, 
Charlotte  L.  Goodnow, 
Charles  H.  Hayden, 
John  C.  Haynes,    . 


INSTITUTION   FUNDS. 


$13,000  00 
220  IS 


dumb,  and  blind) 


dum 


lb,  and  blind) 


$371,167  18 

10,000  00 

80,000  00 

20,000  00 

13,770  00 

1,000  00 

6,000  00 

2,500  00 

2,000  00 


13,220  18 


$3,000  00 
2,500  00 
1,859  32 
5,953  21 
2,500  00 
300  00 
322  50 
25,000  00 
4,000  00 
5,832  66 
555  22 
5,000  00 
268,391  24 
10,508  70 
100,000  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
7,723  07 
2,500  00 
1,500  00 
1,000  00 
10,000  00 
5,000  00 
164  40 
6,450  00 
1,000  00 
5,000  00 
5,000  00 
6,471  23 
20,200  00 
1,000  00 


$519,657  36 


Amounts  carried  forward, 


$518,731  55     $519,657  36 


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Amounts  brought  forward $518,731  55      $519,657  36 

Joseph  H.  Hey  wood 500  00 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden 3,708  32 

Benjamin  Humphrey, 25,000  00 

Martha  R.  Hunt 10,000  00 

Charles  Sylvester  Hutchison 2,156  00 

Catherine  M.  Lamson 6,000  00 

William  Litchfield 7,951  48 

Hannah  W.  Loring, 9,500  00 

Mrs.  Susan  B.  Lyman, 4,809  78 

The  Maria  Spear  Bequest  for  the  Blind,  .        .        .  15,000  00 

Stephen  W.  Marston, 5,000  00 

Charles  Merriam 1,000  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker 699  41 

George  Francis  Parkman, 50,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters, 500  00 

Henry  L.  Pierce 20,000  00 

Sarah  E.  Pratt, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Putnam, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Charlotte  B.  Richardson, 40,507  00 

Mrs.  Matilda  B.  Richardson 300  00 

Miss  Mary  L.  Ruggles 3,000  00 

Nancy  E.  Rust, 2,640  00 

Vv^illiam  A.  Rust 1,500  00 

Samuel  E.  Sawyer 2,174  77 

Joseph  Scholfield 2,500  00 

Joseph  C.  Storey, 5,000  00 

Mary  F.  Swift 1,391  00 

William  Taylor, 893  36 

Joanna  C.  Thompson, 1,000  00 

Alfred  T.  Turner 1,000  00 

George  B.  Upton, 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Ann  White  Vose 12,994  00 

Horace  W.  Wadleigh, 2,000  00 

Joseph  K.  Wait 3,000  00 

Harriet  Ware, 1,952  02 

Charles  F.  Webber  (by  sale  of  part  of  vested  re- 
mainder interest  under  his  will) ,     ....  11,500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Ann  P.  Weld 2,000  00 

Opha  J.  Wheeler, 3,086  77 

Samuel  Brenton  Whitney 1,000  00 

Mehitable  C.  C.  WUson, 543  75 

Thomas  Wyman 20,000  00 

Charles  L.  Young, 5,000  00 

—        817,539  21 

Loans  payable.  Kindergarten, 40,000  00 

Accounts  payable, 2,207  18 

E,  E.  Allen,  Trustee, 147  82 

$1,379,551  57 


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WORKS   DEPARTMENT. 


Balance  Sheet  —  August  31,  1916. 

Assets. 

Cash $407  66 

Accounts  receivable, 4,321  36 

Stock  on  hand  —  material, 5,492  94 

Tools  and  equipment 2,126  00 

Total  assets, $12,347  96 

Ldabilides. 
Balance  due  Institution :  — 

Current  account, $12,245  05 

Profit  for  year 102  91 

Total  liabilities, $12,347  96 

Peofit  and  Loss  Account. 

Revenue. 
Sales,  repairs,  etc., $30,874  60 

Expenditures. 

Material  used, $10,993  85 

Salaries  and  wages, 15,215  60 

General  expense, 3,809  10 

Total  expenditures 30,018  55 

Profit, $856  05 

Deduct:  — 
Difference  in  inventory  of  tools  and  equipment,       .  $322  65 

Bad  accounts  written  off, 447  94 

Total $770  59 

Less:  — 
Recovered  from  bad  debts, 17  45  753  14 

Total  profit  for  the  year  ending  August  31,  1916,  .        .        .  $102  91 


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The  following  represents  the  funds  and  balances  of  the 
Howe  Memorial  Press  Fund :  — 


HOWE    MEMORIAL    PRESS   FUND. 
General  funds  of  the  Department,     ....    $240,296  42 
The  Deacon  Stephen  Stickney  fund   (bequest  of 

Mary  M.  S.  Spaulding), 5,000  00 

$245,296  42 

Legacies:  — 

Joseph  H.  Center $1,000  00 

Augusta  Well, 10,290  00 

11,290  00 

Accounts  payable, 9  35 


$256,595  77 


DONATIONS. 

Institution  Account. 


Clapp,  Mrs.  Robert  P.,        .        .        . 
Hammond,  Miss  Ellen, 
Hemenway,  Miss  Clara, 
Lillie,  Frances  C, 

Pratt,  R.  M 

White,  C.  J., 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society, 
Iron  Fence  Fund,  .... 


$10  00 

5  00 

100  00 

300  00 

100  00 

25  00 

$540  00 

4,725  00 

105  00 

$5,370  00 

Kindekgakten  Account. 


A  friend, 

Brett,  Miss  Anna  K 

Draper,  Mrs.  George  A 

Duncan,  Mrs.  Samuel  W., 

Gardner,  George  A., 

Matthews,  Mrs.  Annie  B., 

Primary  Department,  Sunday  School  of  the  Union 
Congregational  Church  of  Weymouth  and 
Braintree, 

"The  Children  of  the  King,"  Church  of  the  Dis- 
ciples, Boston 


$2  00 

10  00 

50  00 

3  00 

50  00 

100  00 

18  00 

1  50 

$234  50 


71 


The  following  represents  the  funds  and  balances  of  the 
Kindergarten: —  


KINDERGARTEN   FUNDS 
General  funds  of  the  Kindergarten, 
Mrs.  William  Appleton  fund,      . 
Nancy  Bartlett  fund,    .        .        ■ 
In  memory  of  William  Leonard  Benedict,  Jr., 
Miss  Helen  C.  Bradlee  fund, 
Mrs.  M.  Jane  Wellington  Danforth  fund, 
Catherine  L.  Donnison  memorial  fund  (bequest  of 

Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Swan),      .        .        •        • 
In  memory  ot  Mrs.  Eliza  James  (Bell)  Drape 
Mrs.  Helen  Atkins  Edmands  fund, 
Mrs.  Eugenia  F.  Famham  fund, 
Miss  Sarah  M.  Fay  fund,    . 
Albert  Glover  fund, 
Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  memorial  fund   (be 

quest  of  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Curtis), 
In  memoriam  A.  A.  C, 

Moses  Kimball  fund,    . 

Mrs.  Jerome  Jones  fund, 

Mrs.  Emeline  Morse  Lane  fund 

Mrs.  Annie  B.  Matthews  fund. 

Miss  Jeannie  Warren  Paine  fund 

George  F.  Par  km  an  fund,    . 

Mrs.  Warren  B.  Potter  fund, 

John  M.  Rodocanachi  fund, 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Rotch  fund. 

Memorial  to  Frank  Davison  Rust, 

Mrs.  Harriet  Taber  fund,    . 

Transcript  ten  dollar  fund, 

Mrs.  George  W.  Wales  fund. 

In  memory  of  Ralph  Watson, 


Legacies: —  „  „„ 

■c.    ...     A  IK                                                                    .  $150  00 

Emihe  Albee * 

Lydia  A.  Allen Vz  ICr. 

Michael  Anagnos 3  000  00 

Mrs.  Harriet  T.  Andrews 5,000  00 

Mrs.  William  Appleton S'OOO  00 

Elizabeth  H.  Bailey, J^l  1 

Mrs.  Eleanor  J.  W.  Baker, 2,500  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Baker 13,053  48 

Miss  Mary  D.  Balfour, "" 

Sidney  Bartlett, 10.000  00 

Thompson  Baxter, ^" 

Robert  C.Billings, 10-000  00 

Samuel  A.  Borden ^'^^^  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $55,049  36 


5580,713  61 

13,000  00 

500  00 

1,000  00 

140,000  00 

11,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,500  00 

5,000  00 

1,015  00 

15,000  00 

1,000  00 

3,000  00 

500  00 

1,000  00 

9,000  00 

1,000  00 

15,000  00 

1,000  00 

3,500  00 

30,000  00 

2,250  00 

8,500  00 

14,100  00 

622  81 

5,666  95 

10,000  00 

237  92 

$876,106  29 


$876,106  29 


72 


*  s 


Amounts  brought  forward $55,049  36      $876,106  29 

Mrs.  Sarah  Bradford, 100  00 

J.  Putnam  Bradlee 168,391  24 

Charlotte  A.  Bradstreet 6,130  07 

Ellen  Sophia  Brown, 1,000  00 

Rebecca  W.  Brown 2,840  00 

Miss  Harriet  Tilden  Browne, 2,000  00 

John  W.  Carter 500  00 

Mrs.  Adeline  M.  Chapin, 400  00 

Benjamin  P.  Cheney 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  G.  Coburn, 9,980  10 

Charles  H.  Colburn, 1,000  00 

Helen  Collamore 5,000  00 

Anna  T.  Coolidge 45,138  16 

Mrs.  Edward  Cordis, 300  00 

Miss  Sarah  Silver  Cox 5,000  00 

Miss  Susan  T.  Crosby 100  00 

Miss  Caroline  T.  Downes, 12,950  00 

George  E.  Downes 3,000  00 

Charles  H.  Draper 23,934  13 

Mrs.  Lucy  A.  Dwight 4,000  00 

Mary  B.  Emmons 1,000  00 

Miss  Mary  Eveleth, 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Susan  W.  Farwell, 500  00 

John  Foster, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Gay 7,931  00 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Gifford 5,000  00 

Joseph  B.  Glover, 5,000  00 

Miss  Matilda  Goddard 300  00 

Mrs.  Maria  L.  Gray 200  00 

Mrs.  Mary  L.  Greenleaf, 5,157  75 

Mrs.  Josephine  S.  Hall, 3,000  00 

Mrs.  Olive  E.  Hayden 4,622  45 

Mrs.  Jane  H.  Hodges, 300  00 

Mrs.  Margaret  A.  Holden, 2,360  67 

Mrs.  Marion  D.  HoUingsworth,          ....  1,000  00 

Frances  H.  Hood, 100  00 

Miss  Ellen  M.  Jones 500  00 

Mrs.  Maria  E.  Jones, 935  95 

Mrs.  Ann  E.  Lambert 700  00 

Charles  Larned, 5,000  00 

William  Litchfield 5,000  00 

Mary  Ann  Locke 5,874  00 

Robert  W.  Lord, 1,000  00 

EHsha  T.  Loring, 5,000  00 

Sophia  N.  Low 1,000  00 

Augustus  D.  Manson, 8,134  00 

Calanthe  E.  Marsh, 13,491  20 

Miss  Sarah  L.  Marsh 1,000  00 

Amounts  carried  forward $441,920  08      $876,106  29 


73 


Amounts  brought  forward $441,920  08      $876,106  29 

Miss  Rebecca  S.  Melvin, 23,545  55 

Mrs.  Louise  Chandler  Moulton 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Mary  Abbie  Newell 500  00 

Margaret  S.  Otis 1.000  00 

Miss  Anna  R.  Palfrey, 50  00 

Sarah  Irene  Parker, 699  41 

Miss  Helen  M.  Parsons, 500  00 

Mrs.  Richard  Perkins, 10,000  00 

Edward  D.  Peters 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  J.  Phipps, 2,000  00 

Mrs.  Caroline  S.  Pickman 1.000  00 

Katherine  G.  Pierce 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Josephine  L.  Hyde  Pope 1,000  00 

Mrs.  Helen  A.  Porter, 50  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Potter 395,014  44 

Francis  S.  Pratt, 100  00 

Mrs.  Mary  S.  C.  Reed 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Jane  Roberts 93,025  55 

Miss  Dorothy  Roffe 500  00 

Miss  Rhoda  Rogers, 500  00 

Miss  Edith  Rotch 10,000  00 

William  A.  Rust 1.500  00 

Miss  Rebecca  Salisbury, 200  00 

Joseph  Scholfield 3,000  00 

Caroline  O.  Seabury, 1.000  00 

Mrs.  Eliza  B.  Seymour, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Annie  E.  Snow 9.903  27 

Adelaide  Standish, 5,000  00 

Elizabeth  G.  Stuart, 2,000  00 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  P.  Sturgis, 21,729  52 

Abby    K.    Sweetser    fund    (bequest    of    Seth    K. 

Sweetser) 25,000  00 

Hannah  R.  Sweetser  fund, 5,000  00 

Benjamin  Sweetzer, 2,000  00 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Taber, 1.000  00 

Mary  L.  Talbot 630  00 

Mrs.  Cornelia  V.  R.  Thayer 10,000  00 

Mrs.  Delia  D.  Thorndike, 5,000  00 

Mrs.  EUzabeth  L.  Tilton 300  00 

Mrs.  Betsey  B.  Tolman 500  00 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  Turner 7,582  90 

Royal  W.  Turner, 24,082  00 

Miss  Rebecca  P.  Wainwright, 1.000  00 

George  W.  Wales 5,000  00 

Mrs.  Charles  E.  Ware 4,000  00 

Mrs.  Jennie  A.  (Shaw)  Waterhouse,           ...  565  84 

Mary  H.  Watson 100  00 

The  May  Rosevear  White  fund 500  00 


Amounts  carried  forward $1,143,498  56      $876,106  29 

74 


Amounts  brought  forward,     ....         $1,143,49856      $876,10629 

Mary  Whitehead, ggg  qq 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Whitney 100  00 

Sarah  W.  Whitney, 150  q2 

Miss  Betsey  S.  Wilder, 500  00 

Hannah  Catherine  Wiley 200  00 

Miss  Mary  W.  Wiley *  150  00 

Miss  Mary  Williams, 5  qoo  00 

Almira  F.  Winslow, 306  80 

Harriet  F.  Wolcott 5  532  qo 

1,156,103  98 

Accounts  payable, 2  024  31 

E.  E.  Allen,  Trustee, .        .        .  '     5  72 

Leonard  and  Jerusha  Hyde  Memorial  Room 219  00 


2,033,459  30 


75 


CONTRIBUTIONS  FOR  THE   PERKINS 
INSTITUTION. 


Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,   Mrs.  Sarah  A. 
Stover,  Treasurer:  — 

Annual  subscriptions, $2,501  00 

Donations, 1,796  00 

Donations  for  the  Iron  Fence,       ......  105  00 

Cambridge  Branch, 246  00 

Dorchester  Branch, 91  00 

Lynn  Branch, 56  00 

Milton  Branch, 35  00 


$4,830  00 


ANNUAL  SUBSCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  PER- 
KINS INSTITUTION. 

Through  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  Society,  Mrs.  S.  A.  Stover,  Treasurer. 


Abbott,  Miss  Adelaide  F., 
Abbott,  Mrs.  J., 
Adams,  Mr.  George, 
Adams,  Mrs.  Waldo, 
Alford,  Mrs.  O.  H., 
Allen,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Allen,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Alley,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Amory,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Amory,  Mrs.  William, 
Amsden,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Anderson,  Miss  Anna  F., 
Anthony,  Mrs.  S.  Reed, 
Appleton,  Miss  Fanny  C., 
Archer,  Mrs.  E.  M.  H., 
Bacon,  Miss  Mary  P., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


$5  00  1 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

3 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

25 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

4 

00 

.  $81  00  1 

Amount  brought  forward,   .     $81  00 


Badger,  Mrs.  WaUis  B. 
Baer,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Bailey,  Mrs.  H.  R., 
Baker,  Miss  S.  P., 
Balch,  Mrs.  F.  G., 
Baldwin,  Mr.  E.  L., 
Baldmn,  Mrs.  J.  C.  T. 
Barnard,  Mr.  Simon, 
Bartol,  Miss  EHzabeth  H., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Batt,  Mrs.  C.  R., 
Beal,  Mrs.  Boylston  A., 
Berlin,  Dr.  Fanny, 
Betton,  Mrs.  C.  G.,     . 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 


10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

10  00 

1  00 

2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $141  00 


76 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $141  00 


Bigelow,   Mrs.  Alanson   (for 

1915-16), 
Blackmar,  Mrs.  W.  W., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Arthur  W., 
Blake,  Mrs.  Francis,    . 
Boardman,  Mrs.  Alice  L., 
Boardman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Bond,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  L.  B.,  . 
Bowditch,  Dr.  Vincent  Y., 
Boynton,  Miss  Ella  F., 
Bradt,  Mrs.  Julia  B.,   . 
Brewer,  Miss  Lucy  S., 
Bronson,  Mrs.  Dillon, 
Brown,  Miss  Augusta  M., 
Brown,  Mrs.  Atherton  T., 
Bunker,  Mr.  Alfred,     . 
Bums,  Mr.  Walter  G., 
Burr,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Cabot,  Mrs.  Walter  C, 
Calkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Carter,  Mrs.  J.  W., 
Cary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,    . 
Cary,  Miss  Georgina  S., 
Casson,  Miss  Etta  B., 
Chamberlain,  Mrs.  M.  L., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Channing,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Chapin,  Mrs.  Henry  B., 
Chapman,  Miss  E.  D., 
Chapman,  Miss  Jane  E 
Chase,  Mrs.  Susan  R., 
Clapp,  Dr.  H.  C, 
Clark,    Mr.    B.    Preston,   in 

memory    of    his    mother, 

Mrs.  B.  C.  Clark,     . 
Clark,  Mrs.  Frederic  S., 
Clark,  Mrs.  John  T.,    . 
Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  F., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Charles  K., 
Cobb,  Mrs.  Darius, 
Cochrane,  Mrs.  Alex., 
Codman,      Miss     Catherine 

Amory,   . 
Conant,  Mrs.  Nathaniel, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  J.  Randolph, 
Coolidge,  Mrs.  Penelope  F., 
Corey,  Mrs.  H.  D.,       . 
Cox,  Mrs.  William  E., 


C. 


00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 

2  00 
10  00 

1  00 

1  00 

10  00 

25  00 

3  00 
5  00 

50  00 
10  00 


1  00 
5  00 
10  00 
3  00 
5  00 

1  00 
5  00 

5  00 

2  00 
25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

10  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $410  00 


Amount  brought  forward,   .  $410  00 


Craig,  Mrs.  D.  R., 
Craigin,  Dr.  George  A., 
Crane,  Mr.  Zenas, 
Crocker,  Miss  Sarah  H., 
Cummings,  Mrs.  Charles  A 
Curtis,  Mr.  George  W., 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Horatio  G., 
Curtis,  Mrs.  James  F., 
Curtis,  Miss  M.  G.,      . 
Curtis,  Mr.  Wm.  O.,    . 
Gushing,  Mrs.  H.  W., 
Gushing,  Mrs.  J.  W.,    . 
Gushing,  Miss  Sarah  P., 
Cutler,  Mrs.  C.  F.,       . 
Cutler,  Mrs.  E.  G.,       . 
Cutler,  Mrs.  George  C, 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Ellen  M., 
Cutter,  Mrs.  Frank  W., 
Dale,  Mrs.  Eben, 
Damon,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Jr., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Edward  L., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Joseph  E., 
Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 
Day,  Mrs.  Lewis, 
Denney,  Mrs.  Arthur  B., 
Derby,  Mrs.  Hasket,    . 
Drost,  Mr.  C.  A., 
DuBois,  Mrs.  L.  G.,     . 
Dwight,  Mrs.  Thomas, 
Edgar,  Mrs.  C.  L., 
Edmands,  Mrs.  M.  Grant, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Amory, 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Wm.  Richards, 
Elms,  Mrs.  Edward  E., 
Elms,  Miss  Florence  G., 
Elms,  Mrs.  James  C,  . 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Endicott,  Mrs.  William  C, 
Ernst,  Mrs.  C.  W., 
Ernst,  Mrs.  H.  C, 
Eustis,  Mrs.  F.  A., 
Fay,  Miss  Sarah  M.,    . 
Faulkner,  Miss  Fannie  M., 
Ferrin,  Mrs.  M.  T.  B., 
Field,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Fitz,  Mrs.  W.  Scott,     . 
Flood,  Mrs.  Hugh, 
Fottler,  Mrs.  Jacob,     . 
Frank,  Mrs.  Daniel,     . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .    $783  00 


5  00 

5  00 

.  100  00 

5  00 

,   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   20  00 

5  00 

3  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

.   20  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

10  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

1  00 

77 


Amount  brought  forward,    .  $783  00 


Freeman,  Mrs.  Louisa  A., 
Friedman,  Mrs.  Max,  . 
Friedman,  Mrs.  S., 
Frothingham,  Mrs.  Langdon 
Gardner,  Mrs.  John  L., 
Gilbert,  Mr.  Joseph  T., 
Gill,  Mrs.  George  F.,   . 
Goldberg,  Mrs.  S., 
Goldschmidt,  Mrs.  Meyer  H 
Gooding,  Mrs.  T.  P.,    . 
Grandgent,  Prof.  Charles  H 
Grant,  Mrs.  Robert,     . 
Gray,  Mrs.  Reginald,  . 
Greeley,  Mrs.  R.  F.,     . 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  G., 
Grew,  Mrs.  H.  S., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Anthony  D., 
Harrington,  Dr.  Harriet  L. 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hatch,  Mrs.  Fred  W., 
Haven,  Mrs.  Edward  B., 
Hayward,  Mrs.  G.  G., 
Herman,  Mrs.  Joseph  M., 
Higginson,    Mrs.   F.   L.    (for 

1915),      . 
Higginson,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Hills,  Mrs.  Edwin  A.,  . 
Holbrook,  Mrs.  Walter  H., 
Holden,  Mrs.  C.  W.,    . 
Homans,  Mrs.  John,    . 
Hooper,  Miss  Adeline  D., 
Hooper,  Mrs.  James  R., 
Howard,  Mrs.  P.  B.,    . 
Howe,  Mrs.  Arabella,  . 
Howe,  Mrs.  George  D., 
Howland,  Mrs.  D.  W., 
Hubbard,  Mrs.  Charles  W 
Hunnewell,  Mrs.  Arthur, 
Hyde,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Ireson,  Mrs.  S.  E., 
Jewett,  Miss  Annie, 
Johnson,  Mr.  Arthur  S., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Herbert  S., 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Wolcott  H., 
Jones,  Mrs.  B.  M., 
Josselyn,  Mrs.  A.  S.,    . 
Kettle,  Mrs.  Claude  L., 
Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 
Kimball,  Mrs.  David  P., 

Amount  carried  forward, 


3  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

.   25  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

.   15  00 

1  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

,   25  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

.   20  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

.118  00 


Amount  brought  forward,  $1,118  00 


Kimball,  Mr.  Edward  P., 
Kimball,  Mrs.  Marcus  M., 
Kingsley,  Mrs.  Robert  C, 
Klous,  Mr.  Isaac, 
Kornfeld,  Mrs.  Felix,  . 
Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 
Lamson,  Mrs.  J.  A.,     . 
Lauterstein,  Mrs.  Josie, 
Ledyard,  Mrs.  Lewis  Cass, 
Lee,  Mrs.  George, 
Lee,  Mrs.  Joseph, 
Leland,  Mrs.  Lewis  A., 
Levi,  Mrs.  Harry, 
Little,  Mrs.  David  M., 
Loring,  Judge  W.  C,   . 
Loring,  Mrs.  W.  C,     . 
Lothrop,  Miss  Mary  B., 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  Thornton  K. 
Lothrop,  Mrs.  W.  S.  H., 
Lovering,  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Lowell,  Mrs.  Charles,  . 
Lowell,  Mrs.  John, 
Mack,  Mrs.  Thomas,   . 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Mansfield,  Mrs.  S.  M., 
Mansur,  Mrs.  Martha  P., 
Marks,  Mrs.  C.  P.,       . 
Mason,  Mrs.  Charles  E., 
Mead,  Mrs.  Fred  Sumner, 
Merrill,  Mrs.  L.  M.,     . 
Merriman,  Mrs.  Daniel, 
Mixter,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Morey,  Mrs.  Edwin,     . 
Morison,  Mrs.  John  H., 
Morse,  Mrs.  Henry  Lee, 
Morse,  Mrs.  J.  P., 
Morse,  Mrs.  Leopold,  . 
Morss,  Mrs.  Everett,   . 
Moseley,  Miss  Ellen  F., 
Moses,  Mrs.  George,    . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Joseph,     . 
Moses,  Mrs.  Louis, 
Nathan,  Mrs.  Jacob,    , 
Nathan,  Mrs.  John, 
Nazro,  Mrs.  Fred  H.,  . 
Newman,  Mrs.  Anna  B., 
Niebuhr,  Miss  Mary  M., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,     . 
Page,  Mrs.  Calvin  Gates, 


Amount  carried  forward,   $1,674  00 


.   10  00 

.   50  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.  100  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

.   25  00 

5  00 

50  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

1  00 

3  00 

1  00 

.   50  00 

5  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

10  00 

1  00 

.  100  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

78 


Amount  brought  forward,   $1,674  00 


Paine,  Mrs.  Wm.  D.,   . 

2  00 

Parker,  Miss  Eleanor  S., 

.       10  00 

Pecker,  Miss  Annie  J., 

.       10  00 

Peckerman,  Mrs.  E.  R., 

2  00 

Peirce,  Mrs.  Silas, 

1  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  Clarabel  N., 

5  00 

Pickert,  Mrs.  Lehman, 

2  00 

Pickman,  Mrs.  D.  L.,  . 

25  00 

Pitman,  Mrs.  Benjamin  F., 

10  00 

Porter,  Mrs.  Alex  S.,  Jr., 

25  00 

Pratt,  Mrs.  Elliott  W., 

2  00 

Prendergast,  Mr.  James  M. 

10  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  George, 

5  00 

Putnam,  Mrs.  James  J., 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  Fanny, 

5  00 

Ratshesky,  Mrs.  I.  A., 

5  00 

Raymond,  Mrs.  Henry  E., 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  Arthur, 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  John  H.,    . 

2  00 

Reed,  Mrs.  William  Howel! 

,       25  00 

Rice,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David, 

.       25  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  Wm.  B.,      . 

2  00 

Richards,  Miss  Alice  A., 

5  00 

Richards,  Miss  Annie  L., 

.        10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  C.  A.,  . 

.       10  00 

Richards,  Mrs.  E.  L.,  . 

2  00 

Robbins,  Mrs.  Reginald  L. 

2  00 

Roeth,  Mrs.  A.  G., 

1  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  J.  C., 

5  00 

Rogers,  Mrs.  R.  K.,     . 

5  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Susan  S., 

5  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Henry, 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Miss  Loraine, 

1  00 

Rosenbaum,  Mrs.  Louis, 

5  00 

Rosenfield,  Mrs.  Harry, 

1  00 

Rotch,  Mrs.  Wm.  J.,    . 

.       15  00 

Rowlett,  Mrs.  Thomas  S., 

1  00 

Russell,   Miss  Catherine  E. 

2  00 

Russell,  Mrs.  Elliott,    . 

2  00 

Sabine,  Mrs.  G.  K.,      . 

4  00 

Salomon,  Miss  Rena  K., 

1  00 

Saltonstall,  Mr.  Richard  M. 

in  memory  of  his  mother 

Mrs.  Leverett  Saltonstall 

10  00 

Sanborn,  Mrs.  C.  W.  H., 

2  00 

Sargent,  Mrs.  F.  W.,    . 

10  00 

Scammon,    The    Misses,    in 

memory  of  their  m.other. 

10  00 

Schouler,  Mr.  James,   . 

5  00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $1,971  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,971  00 


Scudder,  Mrs.  Charles  L., 
Scudder,  Mrs.  J.  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of  her  mother,   Mrs 
N.  M.  Downer, 
Scull,  Mrs.  Gideon, 
Sears,  Mr.  Herbert  M., 
Sears,  Mrs.  Knyvet  W., 
Shattuck,  Mrs.  George  B., 
Shaw,  Mrs.  G.  Howl  and, 
Shaw,  Mrs.  George  R., 
Shepard,  Mr.  Thomas  H., 
Short,  Mrs.  Y.  S., 
Sias,  Mrs.  Charles  D., 
Sias,  Miss  Martha  G., 
Simpkins,  Miss  Mary  W., 
Smith,  Miss  Ellen  V.,  . 
Smith,  Mrs.  Phineas  B., 
Snelling,  Mrs.  Howard, 
Sprague,  Mrs.  Charles, 
Stackpole,  Miss  Roxana, 
Stackpole,  Mrs.  F.  D., 
Stearns,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Wm.  Brackett, 
Stearns,    Mr.   Wm.   B.,    (for 

1915-16), 
Steinert,  Mrs.  Alex, 
Stevens,  Miss  Alice  B., 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Stevenson,  Mrs.  R.  H., 
Stewart,  Mrs.  Cecil, 
Stone,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Stone,  Mrs.  Philip  S.,  . 
Storer,  Miss  A.  M., 
Storer,  Miss  M.  G.,      . 
Strauss,  Mrs.  Louis,     . 
Swann,  Mrs.  John, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Thomas  Palmer, 
Thacher,  Mrs.  Henry  C, 
Thing,  Mrs.  Annie  E., 
Thomas,  Miss  Catherine  C, 
Thomson,  Mrs.  A.  C, 
Thorndike,  Mrs.  Augustus, 
Tileston,  Mrs.  John  B., 
Tudor,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Tyler,  Mr.  Granville  C, 
Vass,  Miss  Harriett,     . 
Vickery,  Mrs.  Herman  F., 
Vose,     Mrs.     Charles,     (for 
1915) 


1  00 


5  00 

10  00 

25  00 

25  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

25  00 


10  00 

3  00 

4  00 
3  00 

5  00 
5  00 

10  00 


10  00 
20  00 


15  00 


2  00 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,259  GO 


79 


Amount  brought  forward,  $2,259  00 


Wadsworth,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
"Ward,  The  Misses, 
Ward,  Miss  Julia  A.,    . 
Ware,  Miss  Mary  Lee, 
Warren,  Mrs.  Bayard, 
Warren,  Mrs.  J.  C, 
Warshauer,  Mrs.  Isador, 
Wason,  Mrs.  Elbridge, 
Watson,  Mrs.  Thomas  A., 
Waxman,  Mrs.  Samuel  D., 
Weeks,  Mr.  Andrew  Gray, 
Weld,  Mrs.  A.  Winsor, 
Weld,  Mrs.  Samuel  M.  (for 

1915-16), 
West,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Wheelwright,  Miss  Mary, 
White,  Miss  Eliza  Orne, 


Amount  carried  forward,    $2,416  00 


5 

00 

.   10 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

.   25 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

5  00 

.   25  00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

1 

00 

2  00 

25 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,   $2,416  00 


White,  Mrs.  Jonathan  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Joseph  H., 
White,  Mrs.  Norman, 
White,  Mrs.  R.  H.,       . 
Whittington,  Mrs.  Hiram, 
Williams,  Miss  Adelia  C, 
Williams,  Mrs.  Arthur,  Jr., 
Williams,  The  Misses, . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Jeremiah, 
Williams,  Mr.  Moses,  . 
Williams,  Mrs.  Moses, 
WUlson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Winsor,  Mrs.  Ernest,   . 
Withington,  Miss  Anna  S., 
Worthley,  Mrs.  George  H., 
Wright,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Young,  Mrs.  Benjamin  L., 


5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

25  00 

2  00 

.   10  00 

2  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

3  00 

.   10  00 

$2,501  00 

DONATIONS. 


Abbott,  Miss  Georgianna  E. 
Alden,  Mrs.  C.  H., 
Ames,  Miss  Mary  S.,   . 
Amory,  Mrs.  William,  2d, 
Bacon,  Miss  Ellen  S.,  . 
Bangs,  Mrs.  F.  R., 
Bartlett,  The  Misses,  . 
Bartol,  Mrs.  John  W., 
Bass,  Mrs.  Emma  M., 
Batcheller,  Mr.  Robert, 
Baylies,  Mrs.  Walter  Cabot, 
Bemis,  Mr.  J.  M., 
Bicknell,  Mrs.  Wm.  J., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
Bigelow,  Mrs.  J.  S.,      . 
Brewer,  Mr.  Edward  M., 
Browning,  Mrs.  Charles  A, 
Bruerton,  Mrs.  James, 
BuUens,   Miss  Charlotte  L, 
Burnham,  Mrs.  H.  D., 
Carr,  Mrs.  Samuel, 
Gary,  Miss  Ellen  G.,    . 
Case,  Mrs.  James  B.,  . 
Cheney,  Mr.  Charles  W., 

Amount  carried  forward. 


$1  00 

5  00 

25  00 

25  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

10  00 

2  00 

3  00 

5  00 

15  00 

5  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

10  00 

100  00 

25  00 

5  00 

$308  00 

Amount  brought  forward,    .  $308  00 


Clapp,  Miss  Helen, 
Clark,   Mrs.   Robert  Farley ^ 
Codman,  Mr.  Charles  R., 
Codman,  Miss  M.  C, 
Cole,  Mrs.  E.  E., 
Converse,  Mrs.  C.  C, 
Cotting,  Mrs.  C.  E.,     . 
Cotton,  Miss  Elizabeth  A., 
Crane,  Mrs.  Z.  Marshal, 
Crosby,  Mrs.  S.  V.  R., 
Daland,  Mrs.  Tucker, 
Edwards,  Miss  Hannah  M. 
Estabrook,  Mrs.  A.  F., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Herbert  H., 
Eustis,  Mrs.  Henry  L., 
Evans,  Mrs.  Charles,   . 
Evans,  Mrs.  Glendower, 
F.,     . 

Fay,  Mrs.  Dudley  B., 
Fiske,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 
Fitzgerald,  Mrs.  Desmond 
Foss,  Mrs.  Eugene  N., 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $656  00 


3 

00 

5 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

.   25  00 

5 

00 

.   50 

00 

.   75 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   25  00 

,   10 

00 

5  00 

.   25 

00 

5  00 

1  00 

5 

00 

.   20 

00 

.   10 

00 

.   25 

00 

2 

00 

.   25 

00 

80 


Amount  brought  forward,   .  $656  00  Amount  brought  forward,  $1,018  00 


French,  Miss  Cornelia  A., 

.       10  00 

Gibbs,  Mrs.  H.  C,       . 

1  00 

Ginzberg,  Mrs.  Barnard, 

1  00 

Goulding,  Mrs.  L.  R., 

5  00 

Gray,  Mrs.  John  Chipman, 

10  00 

Gray,  Mrs.  Morris, 

5  00 

Greenough,  Mrs.  C.  P., 

3  00 

GuUd,  Mrs.  S.  Eliot,    . 

10  00 

Hardy,  Mrs.  A.  H.,      . 

5  00 

Harris,  Miss  Frances  K., 

2  00 

Heath,  Mr.  Nathaniel, 

5  00 

HUl,  Mrs.  Lew  C., 

5  00 

Hobbs,  Mrs.  Warren  D., 

2  00 

Houghton,     Miss    Elizabeth 

G 

10  00 

Hoyt,  Mrs.  C.  C., 

5  00 

Hubbard,  Mrs.  Eliot,  . 

10  00 

Hubbard,  Mr.  Gorham, 

5  00 

Hunnewell,  Mr.  Walter, 

20  00 

Hutchins,  Mrs.  C.  F., 

5  00 

Hyneman,  Mrs.  Louis, 

2  00 

lasigi,  Mrs.  Oscar, 

10  00 

In  memory  of  Mrs.  Harriel 

L.  Thayer,  through  Mrs 

Hannah  T.  Brown,  . 

5  00 

Johnson,  Mr.  Edward  C., 

25  00 

Johnson,  Mrs.  F.  W.,  . 

2  00 

Jolliffe,  Mrs.  Thomas  H., 

5  00 

Joy,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

10  00 

Keene,  Mrs.  S.  W.  (for  1915- 

16), 

4  00 

Kettle,  Mrs.  L.  N., 

50  00 

Knapp,  Mr.  George  B., 

25  00 

Koshland,  Mrs.  Joseph, 

10  00 

Lamb,  Miss  Augusta  T., 

1  00 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  John, 

10  00 

Lincoln,  Mr.  A.  L., 

5  00 

Lins,  Mrs.  Ferdinand, 

2  00 

Livermore,  Col.  Thomas  L. 

10  00 

Locke,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 

10  00 

Lovett,  Mr.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lovett,  Mrs.  A.  S., 

5  00 

Lowell,  Miss  Georgina, 

5  00 

Lowell,  Miss  Lucy, 

5  00 

Lyman,  Mrs.  George  H., 

10  00 

Magee,  Mr.  John  L.,    . 

5  00 

Mandell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,     . 

10  00 

Manning,  Miss  A.  F.,  . 

10  00 

Marsh,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M., 

2  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,018  GO 


Mason,  Miss  Fanny  P., 

.       10  00 

Means,  Miss  Anne  M., 

.       10  00 

Means,  Mrs.  W.  A.,     . 

10  00 

Merriam,  Mrs.  Frank, 

10  00 

Mills,  Mrs.  D.  T., 

5  00 

Miner,  Mrs.  George  A., 

5  00 

Monroe,  Mrs.  G.  H.,    . 

5  00 

Moore,  Mrs.  Henry  F., 

2  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Amelia,  . 

25  00 

Morrill,  Miss  Annie  W., 

20  00 

Morris,  Mrs.  Henry  G., 

1  00 

Nichols,  Mr.  Seth, 

5  00 

Peabody,  Mr.  Harold, 

5  00 

Pearson,  Mrs.  Charles  H., 

5  00 

Perry,  Mrs.  Charles  F., 

2  00 

Pfaelzer,  Mrs.  F.  T.,    . 

10  00 

Philbrick,  Mrs.  E.  S.,  . 

3  00 

Pope,  Mrs.  W.  C, 

2  00 

Potter,    Mrs.    W.    H.     (fo) 

1915-16), 

6  00 

Pratt,  Mr.  Robert  M., 

100  00 

Prince,  Mrs.  Morton,  . 

5  00 

Quincy,  Mrs.  G.  H.,     . 

10  00 

Ranney,  Mr.  Fletcher, 

5  00 

Rice,  Mrs.  N.  W., 

5  00 

Richardson,  The  Misses,  ir 

I 

memory  of  M.  A.  E.  anc 

C.  P.  P., 

2  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Edward  C. 

5  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  Frederick 

5  00 

Richardson,  Mrs.  John, 

3  00 

Riley,  Mr.  Charles  E., 

20  00 

Ripley,  Mr.  Frederick  H., 

2  00 

Rodman,  Miss  Emma, 

5  00 

Rogers,  Miss  Annette  P., 

5  00 

Ross,  Mrs.  Waldo  O.,  . 

5  00 

Russell,  Mrs.  Isaac  H., 

5  00 

S.,  Mrs.,     . 

100  00 

Sanger,  Mr.  Sabin  P.,  . 

5  00 

Seaburj',  Miss  Sarah  E., 

25  00 

Sears,  Mrs.  Richard  D., 

20  00 

Sever,  Miss  Emily, 

5  00 

Sherburne,  Mrs.  F.  S., 

5  00 

Sherman,  Mrs.  Wm.  H., 

2  00 

Sherwin,  Mrs.  Thomas, 

5  00 

Silsbee,  Mrs.  G.  S.,       . 

10  00 

Slattery,  Mrs.  Wilham, 

2  00 

Spalding,  Miss  Dora  N., 

10  00 

Sprague,  Dr.  F.  P.,       . 

10  00 

Amount  carried  forward,    $1,540  00 


81 


Amount  brought  forward,  $1,540  00 


Sprague,  Miss  Mary  C, 
Thayer,  Mrs.  Ezra  Riplej% 
Thayer,  Mrs.  William  G., 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Alfred  J., 
Vialle,  Mr.  Charles  A., 
Walker,  Mrs.  W.  H.,    . 
Wamer,  Mrs.  F.  H.,     . 
Warren,  Mrs.  Wm.  W., 
Webster,  Mrs.  F.  G.,   . 
Weeks,  Mrs.  W.  B.  P., 
Wesson,  Miss  Isabel,    . 


Amount  carried  forward,    $1,646  00 


5 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

1 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10  00 

.       25 

00 

.       25 

00 

2 

00 

3 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,  $1,646  00 


Weston,  Mrs.  H.  C.,    . 
WTieelwright,  Miss  Mary  C, 
Whiting,  Miss  Anna  M., 
Whitney,  Mr.  Edward  F., 
Williams,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Williams,  Mr.  Ralph  B., 
Williams,  Mrs.  T.  B.,  . 
Willson,  Miss  Lucy  B., 
Windram,  Mrs.  W.  T., 
Wright,  Mrs.  J.  G.,      . 
Wyman,  Mrs.  Alfred  E., 


$1,796  00 


.       10 

00 

5 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       10 

00 

5 

00 

.       25 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

.       50 

00 

.       10 

00 

.       15 

00 

DONATIONS   FOR   THE   IRON   FENCE. 


Davis,  Mrs.  Simon, 
Emmons,  Mrs.  R.  W.,  2d, 
Harwood,  Mrs.  George  S., 
Hill,  Mrs.  L.  C, 
Humphreys,  Mrs.  Richard  C. 
Kimball,  The  Misses,  . 

Amount  carried  forward, 


.  $5  00 
5  00 

.  10  00 
5  00 
5  00 

.       25  00 

Amount  brought  forward, 

Lovering,.  Mrs.  Charles  T., 
Norcross,  Mrs.  Otis,     . 
Stevenson,  Miss  Annie  B., 
Williams,  Miss  A.  C,  . 

.     $55  00 

.       10  00 

.       10  00 

5  00 

.       25  00 

.     $55  00 

$105  00 

CAMBRIDGE   BRANCH. 


Agassiz,     Mr.     Max     (dona- 
tion), 
Ames,  Mrs.  James  B.  (dona 

tion), 
Batchelder,  Miss  Isabel  (do 

nation),  . 
Boggs,  Mrs.  Edwin  P., 
Brewster,  Mrs.  William, 
Bulfinch,  Miss  Ellen  S., 
Carstein,  Mrs.  H.  L.,  . 
(donation  for  1915), 
Gary,  Miss  Emma  F., 
Chandler,  Mrs.  Seth  C, 
Deane,  Mrs.  Walter,    . 
Ela,  Mrs.  Walter, 
Emery,  Miss  Octavia  B., 

(donation) , 
Farlow,   Mrs.  Wm.  G.   (do 
nation),  . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $58  00 


.     $10  00 

.       10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

.       10 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

.     $58  00 

$58  00 


2  00 


30  00 


Amount  brought  forward, 

Folsom,  Mrs.  Norton, 
Foster,  Mrs.  Francis  C.  (do- 
nation), ... 
Francke,  Mrs.  Kuno,   . 
Frothingham,  Miss  Sarah  E. 
Glover,  Mrs.  H.  R.,      . 
Goodale,  Mrs.  George  L., 
Green,  Miss  Mary  A., 
Greenough,  Mrs.  J.  B., 
Griswold,  Mr.  Merrill, 
Hayward,  Mrs.  James  W., 
Hedge,  Miss  Charlotte  A., 

(donation), 
Houghton,  Miss  A.  M., 
Howard,  Mrs.  Albert  A., 
Ireland,    Miss    Catharine    I 
(donation), 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $146  00 


2 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

3 

00 

82 


Amount  brought  forward,   .  $146  00 


Kennedy,  Mrs.  F  L.,  . 
Kettell,  Mrs.  Charles  W., 
Longfellow,  Mrs.  W.  P.  P. 
Morison,  Mrs.  Robert  S., 
Neal,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Perrin,  Mrs.  Franklin,. 
Richards,  Mrs.  Mary  A., 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Coolidge  S., 
Sargent,  Dr.  D.  A., 
Saville,  Mrs.  Henry  M., 
(donation) , 


Amount  carried  forward,    .  $185  00 


3 

00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

6 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

Amount  brought  forward,   .  $185  00 


Sawyer,  Miss  Ellen  M., 
Thorp,  Mrs.  J.  G., 
Toppan,  Mrs.  Robert  N., 
White,  Mrs.  Moses  P., 
Whittemore,  Mrs.  F.  W., 
Williston,  Mrs.  L.  R.  (dona- 
tion), 
Willson,  Mrs.  Robert  W., 
Winlock,  Mrs.  J.  (donation) 
Woodman,  Miss  Mary, 
Woodman,  Mrs.  Walter, 


3  00 

.   10  00 

.   10  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

5  00 

1  00 

.   15  00 

2  00 

$246  00 


DORCHESTER   BRANCH. 


E 


Bartlett,  Mrs.  Susan  E., 
Brigham,     Mrs.     Frank 

(donation), 
Burditt,  Mrs.  Charles  A., 
Callender,  Miss  Caroline  S 
Churchill,  Mrs.  J.  R.,  . 

(donation) , 
Gushing,  Miss  Susan  T., 
Eliot,  Mrs.  Christopher  R., 
Faunce,  Mrs.  Sewall  A., 
Hall,  Mrs.  Henry, 
Haven,       Mrs.       Katharine 

Stearns,  . 
Hawkes,  Mrs.  S.  L., 
Humphreys,    Mrs.    Richard 

G 

Jordan,  Miss  Ruth  A., 
Murdock,  Mrs.  Harold, 
Nash,  Mrs.  Edward  W., 
Nash,  Mrs.  Frank  K., 
Nightingale,  Mrs.  C.  (dona- 
tion) , 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $31  00 


$1  00  Amount  brought  forward. 


1  00 


Pratt,  Mrs.  Laban, 
Preston,  Miss  Myra  C.  (do- 

nation),  . 
Reed,  Mrs.  George  M., 
Robinson,  Miss  Anna  B., 
Sajrward,  Mrs.  W.  H., 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Albert  H., 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  Maynard, 
Stearns,  Mr.  A.  T.,  2d, 
Stearns,  Henry  D.,  in  mem- 
ory of ,     . 
Stearns,  Mrs.  Frederic  P., 
Torrey,   Mrs.  Elbridge   (do- 
nation), . 
Whiton,  Mrs.  Royai,    . 
Wilder,  Miss  Grace  S., 
Willard,  Mrs.  L.  P.,     . 
Wood,  Mrs.  William  A., 
Woodberry,  Miss  Mary, 
Wright,  Mr.  C.  P., 


.  $31  00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

4 

00 

.   30 

00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

1 

00 

3 

00 

1 

00 

5  00 

$91  GO 


83 


LYNN  BRANCH. 


Blood,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  K., 
Caldwell,  Mrs.  EUen  F., 
Chase,  Mrs.  Philip  A., 
Earp,  Miss  Emily  A.,  . 
Elmer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  V.  J., 
Harmon,  Mrs.  Rollin  E., 
Haven,  Miss  Rebecca  E.  (do- 
nation), .  .  .  . 

Amount  carried  forward,    . 


$10  00 

1  00 

5  00 

1  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

$26  00 

Amount  brought  forward,   .     $26  00 


HoUis,  Mrs.  Samuel  J.  (do- 
nation), .  .  .  . 

Sheldon,  Mrs.  Mary  L.  (do- 
nation), . 

Smith,  Mrs.  Joseph  N., 

Tapley,  Mr.  Henry  F.  (dona 
tion), 


10  00 


6 

00 

10 

00 

5 

00 

$56  00 


Brewer,    Miss    Eliza    (dona^ 

tion), 
Clark,  Mrs.  D.  Oakes, 
Clum,  Mrs.  Allston  B., 
Forbes,  Mrs.  J.  Murray, 
Jaques,  Mrs.  Francis,  . 


Amount  carried  forward,    .     $23  00 


MILTON   BRANCH. 

Amount  brought  forward, 


Jaques,  Miss  Helen  L., 
Klous,  Mrs.  Henry  D., 
Rivers,  Mrs.  George  R.  R., 


.   $5  00 

1 

00 

2 

00 

.   10 

00 

5 

00 

$23  00 


10 

00 

1 

00 

1 

00 

$35  00 


All  contributors  to  the  fund  are  respectfully  requested  to  peruse  the 
above  list,  and  to  report  either  to  William  Endicott,  Treasurer,  No. 
115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston,  or  to  the  Director,  Edward  E.  Allen, 
Watertown,  any  omissions  or  inaccuracies  which  they  may  find  in  it. 


WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 

Treasurer. 


No.  115  Devonshire  Street,  Boston. 


84 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST. 

I  hereby  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution 
AND  Massachusetts  School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly- 
organized  and  existing  under  the  laws  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  the  sum  of  dollars  {$  ), 

the  same  to  be  applied  to  the  general  uses  and  purposes  of  said 
corporation  under  the  direction  of  its  Board  of  Trustees;  and  I 
do  hereby  direct  that  the  receipt  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  time  being 
of  said  corporation  shall  be  a  sufficient  discharge  to  my  executors 
for  the  same. 


FORM  OF  DEVISE  OF  REAL  ESTATE. 

I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind,  a  corporation  duly  organized 
and  existing  under  the  lav/s  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts, 
that  certain  tract  of  real  estate  bounded  and  described  as  follows :  — 

(Here  describe  the  real  estate  accurately) 
with  full  power  to  sell,  mortgage  and  convey  the  same  free  of  all 
trusts. 


NOTICE. 


The  address  of  the  treasurer  of  the  corporation   is  as 

follows: 

Mr.  WILLIAM  ENDICOTT, 

No.   115  Devonshire  Street, 

Boston,  Mass.